two things taken out of context

Well. Here I took two episodes from Egil Skallagrimsson saga, and mixed them into one.
Spoiler alert!
First, the infamous niðstång. Egil carved a curse in runes on a wooden pole and then put a horse head on it. He then aimed the head to look at the king and queen of Norway. Which is a quite skillfull thing to do since he was in Iceland.
The second is that after Egils death, his skull was put on a pole outside a church. A minister tried to destroy it by slamming an axe (or something) upon it but it didn't break. After this it was widely known that it was Egils tough skull that had made him survive so many battles.