st into
tears from excess of joy. Thus gladness bedewed the cheeks which sorrow
could not moisten. So while the Saxons, sad and shamefaced, bore their
champions to burial with bitter shame, the Danes welcomed Uffe and
bounded for joy. Then no more was heard of the disgrace of the murder of
Athisl, and there was an end of the taunts of the Saxons.

Thus the realm of Saxony was transferred to the Danes, and Uffe, after
his father, undertook its government; and he, who had not been thought
equal to administering a single kingdom properly, was now appointed to
manage both. Most men have called him Olaf, and he has won the name
of "the Gentle" for his forbearing spirit. His later deeds, lost in
antiquity, have lacked formal record. But it may well be supposed that
when their beginnings were so notable, their sequel was glorious. I am
so brief in considering his doings, because the lustre of the famous
men of our nation has been lost to memory and praise by the lack of
writings. But if by good luck our land had in old time been endowed with
the Latin tongue, there would have been countless volumes to read of the
exploits of the Danes.

Uffe was succeeded by his son DAN, who carried his arms against
foreigners, and increased his sovereignty with many a trophy; but he
tarnished the brightness of the glory he had won by foul and abominable
presumption; falling so far away from the honour of his famous father,
who surpassed all others in modesty, that he contrariwise was puffed up
and proudly exalted in spirit, so that he scorned all other men. He
also squandered the goods of his father on infamies, as well as his
own winnings from the spoils of foreign nations; and he devoured in
expenditure on luxuries the wealth which should have ministered to his
royal estate. Thus do sons sometimes, like monstrous births, degenerate
from their ancestors.

After this HUGLEIK was king, who is said to have defeated in battle at
sea Homod and Hogrim, the despots of Sweden.

To him succeeded FRODE, surnamed the Vigorous, who bore out his name by
the strength of his body and mind. He destroyed in war ten captains of
Norway, and finally approached the island which afterwards had its name
from him, meaning to attack the king himself last of all. This king,
Froger, was in two ways very distinguished, being notable in arms no
less than in wealth; and graced his sovereignty with the deeds of a
champion, being as rich in prizes for bodily feats as i