“Flosi spoke: “We have suffered great losses among our men, with many of us wounded and that man slain whom we could least afford to lose. It is quite clear now that we can’t subdue them with arms. There is many a man here who does not show as much fight as he boasted he would. But now we shall have hit on another plan. There are two alternatives for us, and neither is good: either to turn back, and that will mean our certain death; or else to set to fire to the house and burn them inside,...”

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