Ogmund was very troubled. He touched the fine cloak. "I say that that is mine."
"You lie, Ogmund," said Sigurd. "That was in Gunnar's keeping. He gave it to me."
Then Ogmund was for justifying himself to the king; but King Olaf told the story at length to Battle-Glum. Glum listened to it, and said little. "Thrall's blood will show itself," he said. "I expected something of the kind." Then he turned to King Olaf and said, "Do you propose to have this man baptized?" The king said, "I do."
Then Battle-Glum said, "And do you ask me to be of the same religion?" The king told him he could do as he pleased. "You are a credit to any religion," he told him.
Ogmund Dint asked vehemently for baptism.
"You shall have it," said King Olaf. "You shall be baptized first and hanged afterwards, lest your punishment be eternal as well as temporal."
Which was done.
THE END