…they reach Pinhoe, a village on the northeastern outskirts of Exeter, where the high-steward of the king, Cole, and Edsy, the reeve of the king, once again raises an army against them at the Battle of Pinhoe.

The Vikings have laid siege to Exeter, but due to the strong fortification of Athelstan they start pillaging nearby villages.

Men from Devon and Somerset fight the Danes to stop their invasion.

The battle is hard fought and the defenders nearly use up all their ammunition.

A priest of Pinhoe, wanting to supply the Saxon troops with ammunition, sneaks through the Danish lines and runs to Exeter to obtain arrows and arms.

He successfully returns to the defending Saxons and supplies them with the weapons, but these prove insufficient for the Saxons to defeat the Vikings, who infiltrate Pinhoe and burn it to the ground as a warning for the citizens of Exeter.

The priest will later be awarded for his outstanding bravery an annual payment of sixteen shillings, equivalent to the annual salary of the Vicar of Pinhoe.

Again, the Danes prevail and burn 'many goodly towns that we cannot name'.

Here, they turn eastwards and reach …