It was not thought to be that they, who had first forced the Britons to fly, would lightly fly themselves.

Besides, nothing was more shameful than riches which betrayed into captivity the plunderer whom they were supposed to enrich.
For the Danes thought that the men to whom they pretended to have offered riches ought to be punished with sword and slaughter.

Let them therefore feel that they were only giving the enemy a weapon if they seized what he had scattered.

For if they were caught by the look of the treasure that had been exposed, they must lose, not only that, but any of their own money that might remain.

What could it profit them to gather what they must straightway disgorge?
But if they refuse to abase themselves before money, they would doubtless abase the foe.