Also, he resolved that his men should go into hiding during the day, where they could stay and suddenly fall on the invaders of his ships.

He said that perchance the guile might in the end recoil on the heads of its devisors.

And in fact the barbarians who had been appointed to the ambuscade knew nothing of the wariness of the Danes, and sallying against them rashly, were all destroyed.

The remaining force of the Slavs, knowing nothing of the slaughter of their friends, hung in doubt wondering over the reason of Rorik's tarrying.

And after waiting long for him as the months wearily rolled by, and finding delay every day more burdensome, they at last thought they should attack him with their fleet.
Now among them there was a man of remarkable stature, a wizard by calling.