Then he quickly took some sound craft, and accomplished the journey which he had before begun.

Hadding, seeing he was caught, proceeded to ask his companion whether he was a skilled and practised swimmer; and when the other said he was not, Hadding despairing of flight, deliberately turned the vessel over and held on inside to its hollow, thus making his pursuers think him dead.

Then he attacked Toste, who, careless and unaware, was greedily watching over the remnants of his spoil; cut down his army, forced him to quit his plunder, and avenged his own rout by that of Toste.
But Toste lacked not heart to avenge himself.

For, not having store enough in his own land to recruit his forces--so heavy was the blow he had received--he went to Britain, calling himself an ambassador.

Upon his outward voyage, for sheer wantonness, he got his crew together to play dice, and when a wrangle arose from the throwing of the cubes, he taught them to wind it up with a fatal affray.