Inito ergo certamine fugati sunt et caesi pagani, duces regii triginta qui ad auxilium venerant pene omnes interfecti: in quibus Aedilheri frater Annae regis Orientalium Anglorum qui post eum regnavit, auctor ipse belli, perditis militibus sive auxiliis interemptus est: et quia prope fluvium Vinuaed pugnatum est, qui tune prae inundantia pluviarum late alveum suum immo omnes ripas suas transierat, contigit ut multo plures aqua fugientes, quam bellantes perderet ensis.
The armies thus meeting therefore and coupling together, the heathen were put to flight and slain, the thirty royal captains which had come to aid them were almost all killed: among the which was Ethelhere, brother to Anna king of the East English, then reigning after his brother, and himself the principal mover of the war, who was slain with loss of his soldiers and alliance: and whereas the field was fought nigh to the river Winwaed, which at that time from abundance of rain had overflowed his bed, nay all his banks to a wide space, it came about that in the flight far more were lost in the water than were slain by the sword in the fighting.
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