Eric twice boarded him, was twice repulsed.

Olaf kept his quarterdeck; unconquerable, though left now more and more hopeless, fatally short of help.

A tall young man, called Einar Tamberskelver, very celebrated and important afterwards in Norway, and already the best archer known, kept busy with his bow.

Twice he nearly shot Jarl Eric in his ship.

"Shoot me that man," said Jarl Eric to a bowman near him; and, just as Tamberskelver was drawing his bow the third time, an arrow hit it in the middle and broke it in two.