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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK FIVE
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So he brought back 700 ships, thus doubling the numbers of those previously taken out.

Onef and Glomer, Hedin and Hogni, won victories over the Orkneys, and returned with 900 ships.

And by this time revenues had been got in from far and wide, and there were ample materials gathered by plunder to recruit their resources.

They had also added twenty kingdoms to the sway of Frode, whose kings, added to the thirty named before, fought on the side of the Danes.
Trusting in their strength, they engaged with the Huns.

Such a carnage broke out on the first day of this combat that the three chief rivers of Russia were bestrewn with a kind of bridge of corpses, and could be crossed and passed over.


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