But Thorgils and his comrades got conveyance,
and went to Kveldulf and his son,
and told of the misadventure of their voyage,
yet were they well received.
Kveldulf said all was tending to what he had foreboded,
that Thorolf would not in the end have good luck in his
friendship with king Harold.
'And I care little,' said he, 'for Thorolf's money loss in this,
if worse does not come after;
but I misdoubt, as before,
that Thorolf will not rightly
rate his own means against the stronger power with which he has to deal.'

And he bade Thorgils say this to Thorolf:
'My counsel is that you go away out of the land,
for maybe you will do better for yourself if you serve under the king of England,
or of Denmark, or of Sweden.'
Then he gave Thorgils a rowing-cutter with tackling complete, a tent also,
and provisions, and all things needful for their journey. So they departed,
and stayed not their journey till they came to Thorolf and told him all that had happened.
Thorolf took his loss cheerfully, and said that he should not be short of money;
'tis good,' said he, 'to be in partnership with a king.
' He then bought meal and all that he needed for the maintenance of his people;
his house-carles must for awhile, he said, be less bravely attired than he had purposed.
Some lands he sold, some he mortgaged, but he kept up all expenses as before;
he had no fewer men with him than last winter, nay, rather more.
And as to feasts and friends entertained at his house,
he had more means for all this than before.
He stayed at home all that winter.