'I wish,' said he, 'to go out with Thorolf.'
Skallagrim asked if he had spoken at all on that matter with Thorolf.
Egil said he had not. Skallagrim bade him do that first.
But when Egil started the question with Thorolf, he said:
''Tis not likely that I shall take you abroad with me;
if your father thinks he cannot manage you here in his house,
I have no confidence for this, to take you with me to foreign lands;
for it will not do to show there such temper as you do here.'

'Maybe,' said Egil, 'neither of us will go.'
In the night came on a furious gale, a south-wester.
But when it was dark, and now flood-tide,
Egil came where the ship lay.
He went out on to the ship, and outside the tenting;
he cut asunder the cables that were on the seaward side;
then, hurrying back to land by the bridge,
he at once shot out the bridge,
and cut the cables that were upon land.
Then the ship was driven out into the firth.
But when Thorolf's men were aware that the ship was adrift,
they jumped into the boat;
but the wind was far too strong for them to get anything done.
The ship drifted over to Duck-kyle, and on the islands there;
but Egil went home to Borg.