Then Aslaug prevailed upon her husband to linger by her side and delegate the duty of revenge to his sons.

In this battle Ivar made use of his magic to slay Eystein's cow, which could make more havoc than an army of warriors.

His brothers, having slain Eystein and raided the country, then sailed off to renew their depredations elsewhere.
This band of vikings visited the coasts of England, Ireland, France, Italy, Greece, and the Greek isles, plundering, murdering, and burning wherever they went.

Assisted by Hastings, the brothers took Wiflisburg (probably the Roman Aventicum), and even besieged Luna in Etruria.
[Illustration: STRATEGY OF HASTINGS--Keller.] As this city was too strongly fortified and too well garrisoned to yield to an assault, the Normans (as all the northern pirates were indiscriminately called in the South) resolved to secure it by stratagem.

They therefore pretended that Hastings, their leader, was desperately ill, and induced a bishop to come out of the town to baptize him, so that he might die in the Christian faith.