By [Panta’s stream] they stood in array,
The East Saxon army and the eager shield-warriors;
70 [Each troop was helpless] to work harm on the other,
Save the few who were felled by a flight of arrows.
The flood receded; the sailors stood ready,
All of the Vikings eager for victory.
Byrhtnoth bade the bridge to be defended,
75 The brave-hearted warrior, by Wulfstan the bold
With his crowd of kinsmen; he was Ceola’s son,
And he felled the first of the foemen who stepped