For the shafts aimed against him lost all power to hurt, as if their points had been blunted.
When the other side saw him fighting unarmed, they made an attack, and were forced for very shame into assailing him more hotly.

But Harald, whole in body, either put them to the sword, or made them take to flight; and thus he overthrew the sister of Asmund, and restored him his kingdom.

When Asmund offered him the prizes of victory, he said that the reward of glory was enough by itself; and demeaned himself as greatly in refusing the gifts as he had in earning them.

By this he made all men admire his self-restraint as much as his valour; and declared that the victory should give him a harvest not of gold but glory.
Meantime Alver, the King of the Swedes, died leaving sons Olaf, Ing, and Ingild.

One of these, Ing, dissatisfied with the honours his father bequeathed him, declared war with the Danes in order to extend his empire.