le materials gathered by plunder to recruit
their resources. They had also added twenty kingdoms to the sway of
Frode, whose kings, added to the thirty named before, fought on the side
of the Danes.

Trusting in their strength, they engaged with the Huns. Such a carnage
broke out on the first day of this combat that the three chief rivers
of Russia were bestrewn with a kind of bridge of corpses, and could be
crossed and passed over. Also the traces of the massacre spread so wide
that for the space of three days' ride the ground was to be seen covered
with human carcases. So, when the battle had been seven days prolonged,
King Hun fell; and his brother of the same name, when he saw the line of
the Huns giving way, without delay surrendered himself and his company.
In that war 170 kings, who were either Huns or fighting amongst the
Huns, surrendered to the king. This great number Erik had comprised in
his previous description of the standards, when he was giving an account
of the multitude of the Huns in answer to the questions of Frode. So
Frode summoned the kings to assembly, and imposed a rule upon them that
they should all live under one and the same law. Now he set Olmar
over Holmgard; Onef over Conogard; and he bestowed Saxony on Hun, his
prisoner, and gave Revil the Orkneys. To one Dimar he allotted the
management of the provinces of the Helsings, of the Jarnbers, and the
Jemts, as well as both Laplands; while on Dag he bestowed the government
of Esthonia. Each of these men he burdened with fixed conditions of
tribute, thus making allegiance a condition of his kindness. So the
realms of Frode embraced Russia on the east, and on the west were
bounded by the Rhine.

Meantime, certain slanderous tongues accused Hedin to Hogni of having
tempted and defiled his daughter before the rites of betrothal; which
was then accounted an enormous crime by all nations. So the credulous
ears of Hogni drank in this lying report, and with his fleet he attacked
Hedin, who was collecting the king's dues among the Slavs; there was
an engagement, and Hogni was beaten, and went to Jutland. And thus the
peace instituted by Frode was disturbed by intestine war, and natives
were the first to disobey the king's law. Frode, therefore, sent men to
summon them both at once, and inquired closely what was the reason of
their feud. When he had heard it, he gave judgment according to the
terms of the law he had enacted; but when he saw that even th