Egil and Einar pledged them to friendship on parting.
Einar was long abroad from Iceland with men of rank.
Einar was open-handed, and often short of money,
but noble-hearted and manly.
He was in the body-guard of earl Hacon Sigurd's son.
At that time there was in Norway much war,
the battles between earl Hacon and Eric's sons; and now one, now the other,
was driven from the land. King Harold, Eric's son, fell south in Denmark,
at Hals in Lima-firth; this was by treachery. He was then fighting with Harold Knut's son,
who was called Gold-Harold, and earl Hacon was there.
There fell also with king Harold lord Arinbjorn, of whom much has already been told.
And when Egil heard of the fall of Arinbjorn,
then he sang:

'Mead-givers, glorious men,
Gold-spending warrior wights
Are spent and gone. Where seek
Such lavish donors now?
Erewhile, beyond the sea,
Earth's islet-studded belt,
Such on my high hawk-perch
Hailed down the silver shower.'