“We’re going to win!” I was hardly aware of speaking. I had not meant to make a speech, but I made one anyway. “They’re frightened of us!” I called out. “They’re scared! Most of them are skulking in the fort because they daren’t come out to face Saxon blades! And those men,” I gestured at Svein’s ranks with Wasp-Sting, “know they’re going to die! They’re going to die!” I took a few paces forward and spread my arms to get the Danes’ attention. I held my shield out to the left and Wasp-Sting to the right. “You’re going to die!” I shouted it in Danish, loud as I could, then in English. “You’re
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