But since that day there has been somewhat strange about the king." "I wonder not," I said; nor did I."But how goes it with him ?" "Men say, though they dare not do so openly, that the ghost of Eadmund will not let him rest, and that mostly does he fear him when his rage is greatest.

Many a time when the fury seemed like to come on him, Ingvar turns white and stares suddenly beyond all things, as though seeing somewhat beyond other men's ken, and the sweat runs cold from his forehead.

Many a man has escaped him through this." "Surely Eadmund holds him back thus from more cruelty," I thought.
And aloud I said: "What think you of the matter ?" "Why, that I am glad that I was bold enough to save your dying king from more torture--else had I seen somewhat before me day and night.

Truly I see him now betimes in my sleep, but he ever smiles on me.

Moreover, this is true, that all those seven men who shot the arrows died in that week.