Eric Bloodaxe now took a share in the realm.
He held oversight in Hordaland and the Firths;
he took and kept about him a body-guard.
And one spring Eric Bloodaxe made ready to go
to Bjarmaland, and chose him much people
for that voyage.

Thorolf betook him to
this voyage with Eric,
and was in the forecastle
of his ship,
and bare his standard.
Thorolf was then taller and
stronger than other men,
and herein like his father.
In that expedition befell
much tidings.

Eric had a great battle by the river
Dvina in Bjarmaland,
wherein he won the victory,
as is told in the lays about him.
And in that voyage he took Gunnhilda,
daughter of Auzur Toti,
and brought her home with him.
Gunnhilda was above all women
beautiful and shrewd,
and of magic cunning.

There was great intimacy between
Thorolf and Gunnhilda.
Thorolf ever spend
the winters with Eric,
the summers in freebooting.