After this the king bade his men go down to the ships.
To Aulvir Hnuf and his brother he said:
'Take ye Thorolf your kinsman and give him honourable burial;
bury also the other men who have fallen,
and see to the binding of the wounds of those who have hope of life;
but let none plunder here, for all this is my property.'
This said, the king went down to his ships,
and most of his force with him;
and when they were come on board men began to bind their wounds.
The king went round the ship and looked at men's wounds;
and when he saw a man binding a surface-wound, he said:
'Thorolf gave not that wound; his weapon bites far otherwise;
few, methinks, bind the wounds which he gave;
and great loss have we in such men.'

As soon as day dawned the king had his sail hoisted,
and sailed south as fast as he could.
As the day wore on, they came upon many
rowing-vessels in all the sounds between the islands;
the forces on board them had meant to join Thorolf,
for spies of his had been southwards as far as Naumdale,
and far and wide about the islands.
These had got to know how Hallvard and his brother
were come from the south with a large force meaning
to attack Thorolf.
Hallvard's company had constantly met a head-wind,
and had waited about in various havens till
news of them had gone the upper way overland,
and Thorolf's spies had become aware of it,
and this gathering of force was on this account.