Then Egil and his comrades lowered into the vault the rope with
which they had been bound, and drew up thence three men.
Aki said that these were his two sons, and they were Danes,
who had been made prisoners of war last summer.
'I was,' he said, 'well treated through the winter,
and had the chief care of the goodman's property;
but the lads were enslaved and had a hard lot.
In spring we made up our minds to run away, but were retaken.
Then we were cast into this vault.'

'You must know all about the plan of this house,
' said Egil; 'where have we the best hope to get out?'
Aki said that there was another plank partition:
'Break you up that, you will then come into a corn-store,
whereout you may go as you will.'
Egil's men did so; they broke up the planking,
came into the granary, and thence out.
It was pitch dark.

Then said Egil's comrades that they
should hasten to the wood.
But Egil said to Aki,
'If you know the house here,
you can show us the way to some plunder.'
Aki said there was no lack of chattels.
'Here is a large loft in which
the goodman sleeps;
therein is no stint of weapons.'