Chapter 20 - Skallagrim’s marriage.
There was a man named Yngvar, powerful and wealthy. He had been a baron of the former kings. But
after Harold came to the throne, Yngvar sat at home and served not the king. Yngvar was married and
had a daughter named Bera. Yngvar dwelt in the Firths. Bera was his only child and heiress. Grim
Kveldulf’s son asked Bera to wife, and the match was arranged. Grim took Bera in the winter
following the summer when Thorolf had parted from him and his father.

Grim was then twenty-five years old, and was now bald, wherefore he was henceforth called
Skallagrim. He had then the management of all the farms belonging to his father and himself and of all
the produce, though Kveldulf was yet a hale and strong man. They had many freedmen about them,
and many men who had grown up there at home and were about Skallagrim’s equals in age. Men of
prowess and strength they were mostly, for both father and son chose strong fellows to be their
followers, and trained them after their mind. Skallagrim was like his father in stature and strength, as
also in face and temper.

Chapter 21 - Hallvard and his brother go after Thorolf.
King Harold was in Vik while Thorolf was harrying, and in the autumn he went to Upland, and thence
northward to Throndheim, where he stayed through the winter with a large force. Sigtrygg and
Hallvard were with him: they had heard what Thorolf had done at their house on Hising, what scathe
he had wrought on men and property. They often reminded the king of this, and withal how Thorolf
had plundered the king and his subjects, and had gone about harrying within the land. They begged the
king’s leave that they two brothers might go with their usual following and attack Thorolf in his home.

The king answered thus: ’Ye may think ye have good cause for taking Thorolf’s life, but I doubt your
fortune falls far short of this work. Thorolf is more than your match, brave and doughty as ye may
deem yourselves.’

The brothers said that his would be put to the proof, if the king would grant them leave; they had often
run great risk against men on whom they had less to avenge, and generally they had won the day.

And when spring came, and men made ready to go their several ways, then did Hallvard and his
brother again urge their request that they might go and take Thorolf’s life. So the king gave them
leave. ’And I know,’ he said, ’ye will bring me his head and many costly things withal when ye come
back; yet some do guess that if ye sail north ye will both sail and row south.’

They made them ready with all speed, taking two ships and two hundred men; and when they were
ready they sailed with a north-east wind out of the firth, but that is a head-wind for those coasting
northward.

Chapter 22 - Death of Thorolf Kveldulfsson.
King Harold was at Hlada when the brothers went away. Immediately after this the king made him
ready with all haste, and embarked his force on four ships, and they rowed up the firth, and so by
Beitis-sea inwards to the isthmus of Elda. There he left his ships behind, and crossed the isthmus
northwards to Naumdale. The king there took ships belonging to the landowners, and embarked his
force on them, having with him his guard; four hundred men they were. Six ships he had well
equipped both with weapons and men. They encountered a fresh head-wind, and rowed night and day,
making what progress they could. The night was then light enough for travel.