Egil began his cause thus:
he craved the judges to give him lawful judgement in the suit between him and Onund.
He then set forth what proofs he held of his claim on the property
that had belonged to Bjorn Brynjolf's son.
He said that Asgerdr daughter of Bjorn, own wife of him Egil, was rightful heiress,
born noble, of landed gentry, even of titled family further back.
And he craved of the judges this, to adjudge to Asgerdr half of Bjorn's inheritance,
whether land or chattels.

And when he ceased speaking, then Bergonund took the word and spoke thus:
'Gunnhilda my wife is the daughter of Bjorn and Alof, the wife whom Bjorn lawfully married. Gunnhilda is rightful heiress of Bjorn.
I for this reason took possession of all the property left by Bjorn,
because I knew that that other daughter of Bjorn had no right to inherit.
Her mother was a captive of war, afterwards taken as concubine,
without her kinsmen's consent, and carried from land to land. But thou,
Egil, thinkest to go on here, as everywhere else, with thy fierceness and wrongful dealing. This will not avail thee now;
for king Eric and queen Gunnhilda have promised me that I shall have right in every cause within the bounds of their dominion.
I will produce true evidence before the king and the judges that Thora Lace-hand,
Asgerdr's mother, was taken captive from the house of Thorir her brother,
and a second time from Brynjolf's house at Aurland.
Then she went away out of the land with freebooters, and was outlawed from Norway,
and in this outlawry Bjorn and she had born to them this girl Asgerdr.
A great wonder now is this in Egil, that he thinks to make void all the words of king Eric. First, Egil, thou art here in the land after Eric made thee an outlaw;
secondly—which is worse—though thou hast a bondwoman to thy wife,
thou claimest for her right of heritage. I demand this of the judges,
that they adjudge the inheritance to Gunnhilda,
but adjudge Asgerdr to be the bondwoman of the king,
because she was begotten when her father and mother were outlawed by the king.'