Barrows remain to tell the tale.

The sound on which the war was conducted has gained equal glory by the death of Siward.

And now the royal stock was almost extinguished, saving only the sons of Ragnar.

Then, when Biorn and Erik had gone home, Iwar and Siward settled in Denmark, that they might curb the rebels with a stronger rein, setting Agnar to govern England.
Agnar was stung because the English rejected him, and, with the help of Siward, chose, rather than foster the insolence of the province that despised him, to dispeople it and leave its fields, which were matted in decay, with none to till them.

He covered the richest land of the island with the most hideous desolation, thinking it better to be lord of a wilderness than of a headstrong country.