More than one I could see sinking under the weight of arms in the fen slime among the green tussocks of grass that he had slipped from, and I saw that the flying men made for Ashingdon hill.
Now as we drew back some word went round among the Danish host and their onset slackened, and presently they drew off and left us to retreat as we would.

They could not break our ring, and we were coming to broken land where we might have some advantage.
Then Eadmund said: "We will go to yonder hill and hold it.

Then will East Anglia come to us, and we can begin again tomorrow, maybe; and if not, we can watch the Danes away.

All is not lost yet." So we went to Ashingdon hill, and there formed up.

Only the Danish horsemen followed us to find out what we did.