Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11296535-20130914180002/@comment-9138339-20170412222553

I has 2 theories!

1.- He died because he forgot about himself, thus rendering himself mortal (as in many cultures you're only truly dead when you're forgotten)

2.- They cut his head off when Olaf died, and his body rot (burial mounds show bone dragons when they resurrect)