When the Hellespontines saw this, they brought up a shield-mantlet, and seized the approaches of the gates.

Then they tore up the posts, burst into the building, and hewed down the blinded ranks of the enemy.

In this uproar Odin appeared, and, making for the thick of the ranks of the fighters, restored by his divine power to the Danes that vision which they had lost by sleights; for he ever cherished them with fatherly love.

He instructed them to shower stones to batter the Hellespontines, who used spells to harden their bodies against weapons.
Thus both companies slew one another and perished.

Jarmerik lost both feet and both hands, and his trunk was rolled among the dead.