On the appointed day the earl had riding-horses sent down to meet them.
Thorolf and Egil went, and they had thirty men with them.
When they came to the earl, he received them well; they were led into the dining-hall.
At once beer was brought in and given them to drink.
They sate there till evening.
But before the tables were removed the earl said
that they should cast lots to drink together in pairs,
man and woman, so far as numbers would allow, but the odd ones by themselves.
They cast then their lots into the skirt of a cloak, and the earl drew them out.
The earl had a very beautiful daughter then in the flower of youth;
the lot decreed that Egil should sit by her for the evening.
She was going about the floor of the hall amusing herself.
Egil stood up and went to the place in which the earl's daughter had sat during the day.
But when all took their several seats, then the earl's daughter went to her place.
She said in verse: