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Hogni saw no choice but to let all be as Bjorgolf would;
so Bjorgolf bought her with an ounce of gold,
and they became man and wife, and Hildirida went home
with Bjorgolf to Torgar. Brynjolf showed him ill-pleased
at this business. Bjorgolf and Hildirida had two sons;
one was named Harek, the other Hærek.

Soon after this Bjorgolf died; but no sooner was he buried than
Brynjolf sent away Hildirida and her sons. She went to her
father at Leka, and there her sons were brought up. They were
good-looking, small of stature, naturally shrewd, like their mother's kin.
They were commonly called Hildirida's sons.
Brynjolf made little count of them, and did not let them inherit
aught of their father's. Hildirida was Hogni's heiress, and she and
her sons inherited from him and dwelt in Leka, and had plenty of wealth.
Bard, Brynjolf's son, and Hildirida's sons were about of an age.

That same autumn old Bjorgolf journeyed from home in a cutter of his own,
with thirty men aboard. He came to Leka, and twenty of them went up to the
house, while ten guarded the ship. When they came to the farm,
Hogni went out to meet him, and made him welcome, invited him and his
comrades to lodge there, which offer Bjorgolf accepted, and they entered the
room. But when they had doffed their travelling clothes and donned mantles,
then Hogni gave orders to bring in a large bowl of beer; and Hildirida,
the daughter of the house, bare ale to the guests.
Bjorgolf called to him Hogni the goodman, and said, 'My errand here is this:
I will have your daughter to go home with me, and will even now make with
her a hasty wedding.