Frode summoned the nations which he had conquered, and enacted (a)
that any father of a family who had fallen in that war should be
buried with his horse and all his arms and decorations. And if any
body-snatcher, in his abominable covetousness, made an attempt on him,
he was to suffer for it, not only with his life, but also with the loss
of burial for his own body; he should have no barrow and no funeral.
For he thought it just that he who despoiled another's ashes should be
granted no burial, but should repeat in his own person the fate he
had inflicted on another. He appointed that the body of a centurion
or governor should receive funeral on a pyre built of his own ship. He
ordered that the bodies of every ten pilots should be burnt together
with a single ship, but that every earl or king that was killed should
be put on his own ship and burnt with it. He wished this nice attention
to be paid in conducting the funerals of the slain, because he wished
to prevent indiscriminate obsequies. By this time all the kings of the
Russians except Olmar and Dag had fallen in battle. (b) He also ordered
the Russians to conduct their warfare in imitation of the Danes,
and never to marry a wife without buying her. He thought that bought
marriages would have more security, believing that the troth which
was sealed with a price was the safest. (d) Moreover, anyone who durst
attempt the violation of a virgin was to be punished with the severance
of his bodily parts, or else to requite the wrong of his intercourse
with a thousand talents. (e) He also enacted that any man that applied
himself to war, who aspired to the title of tried soldier, should attack
a single man, should stand the attack of two, should only withdraw his
foot a little to avoid three, but should not blush to flee from four.
(f) He also proclaimed that a new custom concerning the pay of the
soldiers should be observed by the princes under his sway. He ordered
that each native soldier and housecarl should be presented in the winter
season with three marks of silver, a common or hired soldier with two, a
private soldier who had finished his service with only one. By this law
he did injustice to valour, reckoning the rank of the soldiers and not
their courage; and he was open to the charge of error in the matter,
because he set familiar acquaintance above desert.

After this the king asked Erik whether the army of the Huns was as large
as the forces of Olmar, and Erik