The Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX) on Toste
The Danish History, > Book One.
attestation: Toste emerged from an obscure part of Jutland and gained notoriety for extreme cruelty against common people
"one Toste emerged, from the obscure spot of Jutland where he was born, into bloody notoriety. For by all manner of wanton attacks upon the common people he spread wide the fame of his cruelty"
attestation: Toste was given the epithet 'the Wicked' for his universal cruelty
"gained so universal a repute for rancour, that he was branded with the name of the Wicked"
attestation: Toste invaded Saxony and forced the Saxon general Syfrid to become his ally against Hadding by threatening him
"The Saxon general Syfrid, when his men were hard put to it in the battle, entreated peace. Toste declared that he should have what he asked, but only if he would promise to become his ally in a war against Hadding"
attestation: Toste went to Britain posing as an ambassador to recruit forces after his defeat
"he went to Britain, calling himself an ambassador"
attestation: Toste deliberately provoked a dice game into a fatal brawl on his ship and looted the dead
"he got his crew together to play dice, and when a wrangle arose from the throwing of the cubes, he taught them to wind it up with a fatal affray"
attestation: Toste allied with a famous rover named Koll and returned to his own land
"he seized the moneys of the slain, and attached to him a certain rover then famous, named Koll; and a little after returned in his company to his own land"