Five chieftains lay

Killed in the conflict, kings full youthful,

30 Put to sleep by the sword, and seven also

Of the earls of [Anlaf], and others unnumbered,

Of sailors and Scotchmen. Sent forth in flight then

Was the prince of the Northmen, pressed hard by need,

To the stem of his ship; with a staunch little band

35 To the high sea he hurried; in haste the king sailed

Over the fallow flood, fled for his life.

Also the sage one sorrowfully northward