At least, I know that the bear began to die, for my spear had pierced some artery in its throat, and all the talk which followed, as well as though I heard it with my ears.

It roared and roared, vomiting blood and stretching out its claws after Steinar as Ragnar dragged him away.

Then it laid its head flat upon the snow and died.

Ragnar looked at it and muttered: "Dead!" Then he walked to that top of the fallen tree in which I lay, and again muttered: "Dead! Well, Valhalla holds no braver man than Olaf the Skald." Next he went to Steinar and once again exclaimed, "Dead!" For so he looked, indeed, smothered in the blood of the bear and with his garments half torn off him.

Still, as the words passed Ragnar's lips he sat up, rubbed his eyes and smiled as a child does when it awakes.
"Are you much hurt ?" asked Ragnar.
"I think not," he answered doubtfully, "save that I feel sore and my head swims.