So go ahead and embrace the suck of the first mile or so, you'll be through it soon enough.

They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!

To a Plains Indian warrior to count coup meant, literally, to touch the enemy. To count coup, a warrior might kill an enemy, injure him, struggle with him, or merely touch him.

[…] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.