Then said Armod:
'Think ye not this were the best hospitality, that a table should be
set for you and supper given you now, and then you should sleep?
This will best rest you.'
'We should like this right well,'
said Egil.
So Armod had a table set for them,
whereon were placed large bowls full of curds.
Then said Armod that he was sorry he had no beer to give them.
Egil and his men were very thirsty from weariness;
they took up the bowls and drank the curds eagerly,
Egil drinking far the most.
No other food was brought.
The household was numerous.
The mistress sat on the cross-bench,
and beside her the other women.
The master's daughter, ten or eleven years old,
was running about the hall-floor.
The mistress called her to her side, and spoke in her ear.
Then the girl went out to where Egil sat,
and recited a verse:

'To thee with this message
My mother doth send me,
To bear word that Egil
Be wary and wait.
"So temper thy stomach,"
Thus sayeth our lady,
"With fare far more worthy
Soon feed we our guests."'