After this had been celebrated, at Bikk's prompting he again went to Germany, took his nephews in war, and incontinently hanged them.

He also got together the chief men under the pretence of a banquet and had them put to death in the same fashion.
Meantime, the king appointed Broder, his son by another marriage, to have charge over his stepmother, a duty which he fulfilled with full vigilance and integrity.

But Bikk accused this man to his father of incest; and, to conceal the falsehood of the charge, suborned witnesses against him.

When the plea of the accusation had been fully declared, Broder could not bring any support for his defence, and his father bade his friends pass sentence upon the convicted man, thinking it less impious to commit the punishment proper for his son to the judgment of others.

All thought that he deserved outlawry except Bikk, who did not shrink from giving a more terrible vote against his life, and declaring that the perpetrator of an infamous seduction ought to be punished with hanging.