They made great preparations for their journey,
choosing them men and the best ship they could get;
it was the very ship they had taken from Thorgils Yeller.
But when they were ready,
the king told them their errand:
they were to go eastwards to Tunsberg,
the market town where Guttorm had resided.
'Ye shall,' said the king, 'bring to me Guttorm's sons,
but his daughters shall be fostered there till
I bestow them in marriage.
I will find men to take charge of
the province and foster the maidens.'

So the brothers started with a fair wind,
and came in the spring eastwards to Vik and to Tunsberg,
and there declared their errand. They took the sons of Guttorm,
and much movable property, and went their way back.
The wind was then somewhat slack, and their voyage slower,
but nothing happened till they sailed northwards over the Sogn-sea,
having now a good wind and bright weather,
and being in merry mood.