When the next year the raiders returned and landed near Jarrow they were stoutly attacked while harassed by bad weather. Many were killed. Their "king" was captured and put to a cruel death, and the fugitives carried so grim a tale back to Denmark that for forty years the English coasts were unravaged.
On a Viking Raid in 794 A.D.; Vol I; The Birth of Britain. - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
