Aside from the obvious, why do people keep acting like Norrin wasn't hurt when he clearly was?
Marvell gets the benefit of the doubt around here because of his portrayal. He rather easily dismissed two extremely powerful heralds. Now admittedly neither were at there best in that brief encounter. Norrin (completely out of character) didn't use his powers at all and as we saw later, Nova was holding back a significant portion of his power. Both of those factors cast a small shadow of doubt next to Mar-vell imo. But he's still a badass.