Pretty sure they roasted him alive for good reason. :’)
you’re gonna make me have to look all this up but it involves the Viking lines in the Norse Saga of Rognvald, Rollo and Rolf the Granger..and oh yeah, the Vikings were meaner than hell...they only spared breedable females and little kids ...the latter if they had a mind to...and a few slaves if need be.....rowing being such a pain you know.
i recall reading it in Churchill’s volumes and thought it an excellent refrain of courage from a soon to die warrior
and it had prophetic consequences in time for Saxon England.
the Saxons are so interesting to have once been hell on wheels and to have been so romaticized bu history from Robin Hood and King Arthur..although King Arthur may actually have been Briton but anyhow...the Saxosn became postoral but never really got the government thing like the Normans did...true feudalism
but the Saxons and their homies the Jutes and Angles were hell on wheels in their day befroe they became farmers
i find all this stuff all fascinating...when Hollywood makes guys in bearskins roaming with long hair and broadswords they are thinking of Saxons...like Skarsgaard cool acerbic portrayal in that funky Arthur movie....
isn’t it weird how Scandinavians are so passive now?...the English are not.