'Yet,' said Egil,
'my mind is that, if we have law to show,
we should try.
Maybe the king will grant us right in this,
for I am told that the king is just,
and keeps well to the laws which he has
made here in the land.
I am rather minded to go seek the king and
try the matter with him.'
Arinbjorn said that he did not desire this.
'I think, Egil,
that these things will be hard to reconcile,
your eagerness and daring,
and the king's temper and power.
For I deem him to be no friend of yours,
and for good reason as he thinks.
I would rather that we let this matter drop,
and did not take it up.
But if you wish it, Egil,
I will rather myself go to the king
and moot the question.'
Egil said that he thanked him heartily,
and would choose it to be so.

Hacon was then in Rogaland, but at times in Hordaland;
there was no difficulty in finding him. And not long after this talk
Arinbjorn made ready for his journey.
It was then publicly known that he purposed to seek the king.
He manned with his house-carles a twenty-oared galley that he had.
Egil was to stay at home; Arinbjorn would not have him go.
Arinbjorn started when ready, and his journey went well;
he found king Hacon, and was well received.