They went back that day to their own company, and met Thorolf.
He asked wither Egil had gone,
and where he had gotten those ships with which they came.
Egil said that Eyvind Skreyja had had the ships,
but they had taken them from him.
Then sang Egil:

'In struggle sternly hard
We strove off Jutland-side:
Well did the warrior fight,
Warder of Denmark's realm.
Till, with his wights o'erborne,
Eastwards from wave-horse high
To swim and seek the sand
Swift Eyvind Skreyja leapt.'

Thorolf said:
'Herein ye have so wrought, methinks,
that it will not serve us as our autumn plan to go to Norway.'
Egil said it was quite as well, though they should seek some other place.