Forward before the bowmen strode Raud, with his sword drawn, and he cried to Ingvar: "Let me slay him, king, and end this for pity's sake!" Ingvar turned his eyes gloomily on him for a moment, and then answered: "What know you of pity?
Slay him if you will." Then when he heard that, Eadmund looked at Raud, smiling on him with a wondrous smile and saying: "Thanks, good friend." So Raud slew him in pity, and that was now the best deed that might be done.
Thereat I cried out once, and my senses left me, and I knew no more..