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The battle surged back and forth across the tangle of ships so that very few men were on the ship in which they arrived. Each advance, reverse and retreat cost men’s lives. They went down with cleaved legs, arms and heads, they fell disemboweled or with crushed skulls. Many dead and living men went into the fjord, to such an extent that the water around the tangled ships turned red with their blood. The smell of blood and sound of struggling men in the water brought another participant in this battle, sharks. Scarcely a man who went into the water came back out again.