Thorstein and Egil made ready for their journey so soon as they had ended their errand.
They then went their way back, and when they came south over the Dovre-fell,
then said Egil that he would go down to Raumsdale,
and after that south by way of the sounds.
'I will,' said he, 'finish my business in Sogn and Hordaland,
for I would fain in the summer take my ship out to Iceland.
' Thorstein bade him settle his journey as he would.
So Thorstein and Egil separated.

Thorstein went south by the dales all the way till he came to his estates.
There he produced the tokens of the king and his message before the stewards,
that they should give up all that property which they had taken and Thorstein claimed.
No one spoke against it, and he then took all his property.
Egil went his way, they being twelve in all.
They came on to Raumsdale, there got them conveyance, and then went south to Mæri.
Nothing is told of their journey before they came to the island called Hod,
and went to pass the night at a farm named Bindheim. This was a well-to-do homestead,
in which dwelt a baron named Fridgeir.
He was young in years, and had but lately inherited his father's property.
His mother was named Gyda;
she was a sister of lord Arinbjorn, a woman of a noble presence and wealthy.
She managed the house for her son Fridgeir:
they lived in grand style. There Egil and his company found good welcome.
In the evening Egil sat next to Fridgeir, and his comrades outside him.
There was much drink and sumptuous viands. Gyda, the house-mistress,
in the evening had some talk with Egil.
She inquired about Arinbjorn, her brother, and other of her kinsmen and
friends who had gone to England with Arinbjorn. Egil answered her inquiries.
She asked what tidings had befallen in Egil's journey. He told her plainly.
Then he sang:

'Gloomy on me glowered
In gruesome wrath a king:
But cuckoo faints and fails not
For vulture flapping near.
Aid good from Arinbjorn,
As oft, and peace I gat.
He falls not whom true friends
Help forward on his way.'