The princess, however, instead of sharing in their satisfaction, ordered them to make a new incursion into the interior, and not to return without bringing Radiger with them as their prisoner.

They did so; and after hunting the defeated and distressed king from place to place, they succeeded, at last, in seizing him in a wood, and brought him in to the princess's encampment.

He began to plead for his life, and to make excuses for the violation of his contract by urging the necessities of his situation and his father's dying commands.

The princess said she was ready to forgive him if he would now dismiss her rival and fulfill his obligations to her.

Radiger yielded to this demand; he repudiated his Frank wife, and married the Anglo-Saxon lady in her stead.
Though the Anglo-Saxon race continued thus to evince in all their transactions the same extraordinary spirit and energy, and met generally with the same success that had characterized them at the beginning, they seemed at length to find their equals in the Danes.
These Danes, however, though generally designated by that appellation in history, were not exclusively the natives of Denmark.