All fear had gone from him.

His passion was to be by his father's side and strike his small blow, beside those mighty ones which Thor could not have bettered.
But even as he was thus uplifted the end came.

Thorwald Thorwaldson tottered and went down, for a hurled axe had cleft him between helm and byrnie.

With him fell the last hope of Hightown and the famished clan under Sunfell.

The Shield-ring was no more.