Now Hadd and Frodi saw Bergonund's fall, and ran thither.
Egil turned to meet them.
At Frodi he threw his halberd, which, piercing the shield,
went into his breast and out at his back.
At once he fell back dead.
Then, taking his sword, Egil turned against Hadd,
and they exchanged but few blows ere Hadd fell.
Just then the herd-boys chanced to come up.
Egil said to them:
'Watch you here by Onund your master and his friends,
that no beast or bird tear their bodies.'
Egil then went his way,
and before long eleven of his comrades met him,
six staying to watch the ship.
They asked him what success he had had.
Whereupon he sang:

'Long did we losers sit,
Losers through him who took
With greed the gold that once
To guard I better knew:
Till now Bergonund's bane
My blade with wounds hath wrought,
And hidden earth in veil
Of Hadd's and Frodi's blood.'