But I was not touched, though the sword was broken.

And when Ottar the scald heard of it he was troubled, not knowing what this might betoken.

But Olaf thought little of it.
"It means that axe is better than sword for this fight," he said, for he had armed me like himself after the Norse manner, than which is none better or more handsome.

He had given me a byrnie {10} of the best ring mail, and a helm gold-inlaid as became a king's kinsman, and axe and shield like his own.

He and his men alone of all Norsemen in those days bore the cross on both helm and shield.
Nor would Olaf have any unchristened man in all his host.