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Thorolf said he would make yet
one journey more.
'And I have,' said he,
'an urgent errand for the journey.
But when I come back next time
I shall settle here.
But Asgerdr, your foster-child,
shall go out with me to her father.
This he bade me when I came west.'
Skallagrim said Thorolf
would have his way.

But in the spring Thorolf declared that
he meant to go abroad that summer.
Skallagrim forbade him, saying:
"Tis good to drive home with
your wain whole.
You have,' said he,
'gotten great honour by travel;
but there is the old saw,
"Many farings, many fortunes."
Take you now here as much share
of the property as you think
will make you a great man.'