Sigurd the Mighty Was Killed by a Severed Head

The Norse sagas are filled with astonishing death scenes. In his book Laughing Shall I Die, Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings, Tom Shippey explains that the defiant Viking attitude to death was largely responsible for making them such successful warriors.

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