But before they parted Thorolf and his father talked together, and Kveldulf said:
'I was not far wrong, Thorolf, in telling thee,
when thou wentest to join king Harold's guard,
that neither thou nor we thy kindred would in the long run get good-fortune therefrom.
Now thou hast taken up the very counsel against which I warned thee;
thou matchest thy force against king Harold's.
But though thou art well endowed with valour and all prowess,
thou hast not luck enough for this,
to play on even terms with the king—a thing wherein no one here in the land has succeeded, though others have had great power and large force of men.
And my foreboding is that this is our last meeting:
it were in the course of nature from our ages that thou shouldst overlive me,
but I think it will be otherwise.'
After this Thorolf embarked and went his way.
And no tidings are told of his voyage till he arrived home at Sandness,
and caused to be conveyed to his farm all the booty he had taken,
and had his ship set up upon land.
There was now no lack of provision to keep his people through the winter.
Thorolf stayed on at home with no fewer men than in the winter before.
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