Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: The Danish king HroÃ gar generously paid the weregild , and had EcgÃ 3\/4 eow swear an oath .
Simplified: EcgÃ 3\/4 eow had killed a man from another clan and had to flee to the Danes . The Danish king HroÃ gar accepted him as one of his warriors .