So he eagerly regained the plunder which he had cunningly sacrificed; and got back his wealth with the greater ease, that he had so tranquilly let it go.

Then did the British repent of their burden and pay for their covetousness with their blood.

They were sorry to have clutched at greed with insatiate arms, and ashamed to have hearkened to their own avarice rather than to the counsel of their king.
Then Frode attacked London, the most populous city of Britain; but the strength of its walls gave him no chance of capturing it.

Therefore he reigned to be dead, and his guile strengthened him.

For Daleman, the governor of London, on hearing the false news of his death, accepted the surrender of the Danes, offered them a native general, and suffered them to enter the town, that they might choose him out of a great throng.
They feigned to be making a careful choice, but beset Daleman in a night surprise and slew him.
When he had done these things, and gone back to his own land, one Skat entertained him at a banquet, desirous to mingle his toilsome warfare with joyous licence.