Egil was hotly pursuing, and a few with him, after a numerous company that fled.
The Frisians came to a dyke, over which they went, and then drew away the bridge.
Then came up Egil and his men on the other bank.
Egil at once went at the dyke and leapt it, but it was no leap for other men,
and no one tried it.
But when the Frisians saw that but one man was following,
they turned back and attacked him, but he defended himself well,
and used the dyke to cover him behind so that they could not attack him on all sides.
Eleven men set on him, but the end of their encounter was that he slew them all.
After that Egil pushed out the bridge over the dyke, and crossed it back again.
He then saw that all his people had turned back to the ships.
He was then near the wood, and he now went along the wood towards
the ships so that he had the choice of the wood if he needed its shelter.
The freebooters had brought down to the shore much booty and cattle.
And when they came to the ships, some slaughtered the cattle,
some carried out the plunder to the ships, some stood higher
up and formed a shield-burgh; for the Frisians were come down
in great force and were shooting at them, being also in battle array.
And when Egil came down and saw how matters stood,
he ran at full speed right at the throng.
His halberd he held before him grasped in both hands,
and slung his shield behind his back. He thrust forward his halberd,
and all before him started aside, and so gat he a passage right through their ranks.
Thus he dashed down to his men, who looked on him as recovered from the dead.