Will Kent help you ?" "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who hath made heaven and earth," answered Eadmund, lifting his eyes heavenwards so earnestly, that in spite of himself the wild heathen king followed their upward gaze for a moment.
It was but for a moment, and that weakness, as he would deem it, was the spark to light Ingvar's wrath, that as yet he had kept under.
"Hammer of Thor!" he shouted, "you dare throw that in my face! Now will I show you if heathen or Christian is stronger." Then with his face white with rage he turned to his men: "Bind him to yon tree, and we will speak with him again!" Now if it is well that I did not die with my king, it was well at that moment for me that my axe hung at my saddle bow, and that my horse--to which I had paid no heed in my troubles--had wandered a little way, for I should surely have fought to prevent this dishonour being wrought.

And I sprung to reach the axe, for the short sword I wore was of no use against so many.

But Raud was close on me, and he dropped from his saddle on my shoulders as I passed him, so that I fell, half stunned under him, and one of the other men ran up, and ere they had stripped and bound the king to a tree, I was bound hand and foot, and rolled by Raud into a thicket where I might escape Ingvar's eye.

And, indeed, he paid no heed to me, but watched the king.
So must I lie there with my heart like to break, seeing all that went on, and I will tell it as best I may.
Ingvar strode to the young oak tree to which they had bound the king and looked fixedly at him.

Then he said, "Scourge this man," and his men did so.