The larboard oars were going yet, and the starboard had almost stopped.

He paid no heed to it, and the ship swung over.

Then the tide caught her bows, and in a moment she ran hard and fast on our bank, and the men in her fell right and left with the shock.
I had seen what was coming, and so had Thord, and we ran our best to meet her as she struck.

The tide was a good one, and she came well on the hard bank, and there was no need to tell my men what to do.

Before the Danes knew what had happened we were climbing over the bows on board, and the Danes aft were leaping into the river to get away from us.
Some few tried to fight; but there must have been two hundred men packed along the gangways, and they could do nothing.