Ragnar sent envoys to Norway, and besought friendly assistance against these men; and Ladgerda, whose early love still flowed deep and steadfast, hastily sailed off with her husband and her son.

She brought herself to offer a hundred and twenty ships to the man who had once put her away.

And he, thinking himself destitute of all resources, took to borrowing help from folk of every age, crowded the strong and the feeble all together, and was not ashamed to insert some old men and boys among the wedges of the strong.

So he first tried to crush the power of the Skanians in the field which in Latin is called Laneus (Woolly); here he had a hard fight with the rebels.

Here, too, Iwar, who was in his seventh year, fought splendidly, and showed the strength of a man in the body of a boy.