Steinar delivered into Thrand's hand a large axe.
whose blade was an ell long,
it was keen as a razor.
'This I think of you, Thrand,'
said Steinar,
'that you would not regard the priesthood of
Thorstein if ye two were face to face.'
Thrand answered:
'No duty do I, as I deem, owe to Thorstein;
and methinks I understand what work
you have laid before me.
You think you risk little where I am;
and I believe I shall come well out of it if I and
Thorstein try our strength together.'

After this Thrand took charge of the cattle.
He understood, ere he had been long there,
whither Steinar had had his cattle taken,
and he sat by them on Stack-moor.
When Thorstein was aware of this,
he sent a house-carle to seek Thrand,
bidding him tell Thrand the boundary between his land and Steinar's.
When the house-carle came to Thrand,
he told him his errand, and bade him take the cattle otherwither,
saying that the land on which they were belonged to Thorstein Egil's son.
Thrand said,
'I care not a jot who owns the land;
I shall take the cattle where I think the pasture is best.'
Then they parted:
the house-carle went home and told him the thrall's answer.
Thorstein let the matter rest,
and Thrand took to sitting by the cattle night and day.