Ottar the scald has much to sing of what we wrought.
For we went through the fair land of Kent with our Norsemen and the new levies, and brought back all the folk to Ethelred.

It was no hard task, for the poor people thought that Cnut had deceived them by his flight; and they were ground down by the heavy payments the Danes had levied on them.

Only at Canterbury, inside whose walls the Danish thingmen gathered in desperation, had we any trouble, and we must needs lay siege to the place.

But in the end Olaf and I knelt in the ancient church of St.Martin and gave thanks for victory.

We had avenged the death of the martyred archbishop, Elfheah.
Ethelred ravaged all Lindsey after Cnut was gone.