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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK TWO
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Thus, undamaged ourselves, we shall be able to deal damage to others." Having said this, he wasted all the places which he saw would be hard to protect, distrusting his power to guard them, and he so far forestalled the ruthlessness of the foe in ravaging his own land, that he left nothing untouched which could be seized by those who came after.

Then he shut up the greater part of his forces in a town of undoubted strength, and suffered the enemy to blockade him.

Frode, distrusting his power of attacking this town, commanded several trenches of unwonted depth to be made within the camp, and the earth to be secretly carried out in baskets and cast quietly into the river bordering the walls.

Then he had a mass of turf put over the trenches to hide the trap: wishing to cut off the unwary enemy by tumbling them down headlong, and thinking that they would be overwhelmed unawares by the slip of the subsiding earth.
Then he feigned a panic, and proceeded to forsake the camp for a short while.

The townsmen fell upon it, missed their footing everywhere, rolled forward into the pits, and were massacred by him under a shower of spears.
Thence he travelled and fell in with Trannon, the monarch of the Ruthenians.


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