And after I was there I knew nothing.

The blow I had had took its effect on me, and I had several ribs broken by some timber that smote me amid the tossing of the great wave of the flood.
Many are the tales that men all round the coasts will tell of the great sea flood that came on Michaelmas even.

For it ran far into the land where no tide had run before, and many towns were destroyed by it, and many people were drowned.

It will be long before the scathe it wrought will be forgotten.

Many of the earl's ships were broken, even where they lay behind the island, and two of ours were lost--carried across the level where no ship had ever swum before.