The prospect of a glorious death in an honorable struggle?
I'm sure you'll get your glorious death soon enough.
But to a Viking, dying while fighting an enemy was a spiritual and glorious death.
Their last thoughts were of their lost loved ones and the glorious death that was waiting.
The Troll-slayer wanted no assistance in his quest for glorious death.
"Or would you seek a quick, glorious death, rather than wait to see what is the best pol- icy?"
Now it's offering to do the job itself, providing him with a glorious death while the world watches.
But only, so the stories said, to glorious death, sword in hand.
The samurai was born to the a glorious death in battle.
It would not exactly have been the glorious death he craved.