- The day begins with a Witangemot, where the notables of this newly forged Geatish Here come together to share news and decide a course of action. The Geats of the Fleet are more angered and aroused by news of the death of Wiglaf than cowed. All agree that the time is come for vengeance against the Eowan rather than a return home without their King. Beornfrith’s men look on with wonder as Thegn Osgar displays the treasure he has held as the King’s share and gasp at his open-handedness as he gifts it to Beornfrith to do as he sees fit. They also witness with interest all the new warriors for their Here that Hildegund’s leechcraft has rescued from Seith-induced Dwam. The immediately agree to entrust to her care those that they have taken in their recent struggles with the Eowan, who have smply been filling oar benches for them. They also agree to release whatever spare weapons and armour they have to that their new comrades might be better accoutered.
- Woden-Priests, Saeric Raven’s Cloak and Hrafn Spear-Shaker, come forward to reveal that they have been seeking in fetch-form (carefully because the Eowan witches are also adepts at this) for the Eowan Fleet. They have found it in a sheltered bay and creek notching into the very tip of Eowland called Ottenby. They have also noted that the Eowan have put out three picket boats at intervals between Ossby and Ottenby, so that a sortie by the Geatish Fleet might be anticipated and news come to the Eowan Fleet so that they might have time to prepare or flee.
- That night at dusk fifty light-armed warriors under the command of Wistan Wulfing set out on foot for Ottenby. They reach the settlement before dawn and await the sunrise for their attack. Their role is to launch an attack from the landward side to keep the Eowan’s busy while the Geatish Fleet arrives.
- Just before dawn the Geatish Fleet launches. A favourable wind means that it is not long before the first Eowan picket boat is caught and overwhelmed as it desperately rows southward to warn its fellows. The second boat signals the third before beaching on a sandbar and making their way on foot towards the settlement, closely pursued by the men of the Sunbeam who likewise beach their boat. On the Black Pig – a similar ship to the Sunbeam: flatbottomed and slow compared to the longships they chase – Thegn Osgar decides that his best chance of glory is to do likewise and approach Ottenby by crossing on foot the ridge that separates it from the east coast.
- Meanwhile the third picket boat finds itself assailed by a pod of seven large seals, six shape-shifted Wade-Priests and Tohrwulf in his seal cloak. In a remarkable show of synchronicity, the seven seals leap out of the water and crash down upon starboard strake of the Eowan shell-boat, smashing in to pieces so that the hides that form its hull have no support and it sinks. Tohrwulf makes his way to the sandbar near to where Osgar and his men have landed and shifts back into his human form. Despite being stark-bollock naked he joins them in their attack.
- At Ottenby Wistan launches his assault while a portion of his men – bowmen led by Herewulf Crowsbane and Aethelbryht the Saetur-Priest – creep round the back of the settlement. From there they launch Saetur-blessed fire arrows into the Great Hall.
- At the mouth of the inlet the Geatish fleet encounter one last Eowan defence. A mighty Nicor rises from the depths, serpentine with two sharp horns sprouting from its brow. It smashes the first ship to round the point, the Sea Otter, to matchwood and stoves in the bow of the Selkie before the Oakenheart engages it.
- Meanwhile, Wistan and Osgar have combined to bring slaughter to the Eowan ships and crews beached in the inlet and the Great Hall of Ottenby blazes. On the beach Thegn Osgar encounters a huge warrior in byrnie and grimhelm – unusual for the Eowan. This is Genric, the First Sword of the Eowan Fleet. It matters little to Thegn Osgar Lytelman who scarcely breaks stride as he cuts down the Eowan champion (he later gifts all his equipment to the naked Tohrwulf). Instead his attention is taken by the Nicor, now threatening to do unto the Oakenheart what it has done to the Selkie and the Sea Otter. Calling his men to him he launches one of the Eowan shell-boats and they row out towards the sea-wight. Leofdag Thunor’s-Priest immendiately attracts its attention with a bolt of lighting that springs from a large black eye-shaped stone in his hand to lance into the Nicor. Its horned head lashes down towards the cockle-shell boat but meets only the blade of Osgar’s Giant-wrought axe. Hrothgar’s spear licks out to strike it in the neck and the naked Tohrwulf tries to leap upon its back, though can get no grip upon its slick scales. Then Osgar’s axe bites deep once more and it sinks below the waves as the Geatish Fleet cheers Thegn Osgar-Lytelman Wight-Slayer.
- The Battle of Ottenby is not a total success for the Geats. They have lost two ships and scores of warriors on them. Almost half the Eowan fleet manages to escape, covered by the Nicor and there is much grumbling about the firing of the Great Hall and all the loot presumed to be in there. However, it is a victory and they have once more taken a haul of seith-slaves who they hope will provide yet more motivated warriors for their war upon the Eowan. To accommodate these and a number of Eowan prisoners of war. A larger force are dispatched under Wistan to return on foot. This time instead of creeping through the landscape, they slake their disappointed thirst for loot by ravage the farmsteads they meet on the way, taking whatever is portable and burning what is left. Wistan does his best to moderate their worst excesses.
Ottenby – Thegn Osgar’s Speech to the Witangemot