On the evening of a day after sunset they came to Sandness, and saw lying there opposite the farm a
long-ship with tent spread, which they knew to be Thorolf’s. He was even then purposing to sail away,
and had bidden them brew the ale for their parting carousal. The king ordered his men to disembark
and his standard to be raised. It was but a short way to the farm buildings.

Thorolf’s watchmen sate within drinking, and were not gone to their posts; not a man was without; all
sate within drinking. The king had a ring of men set round the hall: they then shouted a war-whoop,
and a war-blast was blown on the king’s trumpet. On hearing which Thorolf’s men sprang to their
weapons, for each man’s weapons hung above his seat. The king caused some to make proclamation at
the door, bidding women, children, old men, thralls, and bondmen to come out. Then came out Sigridr
the mistress, and with her the women that were within, and the others to whom permission was given.
Sigridr asked if the sons of Kari of Berdla were there. They both came forward and asked what she
would of them.

’Lead me to the king,’ said she.

They did so. But when she came to the king, she said: ’Will anything, my lord, avail to reconcile thee
with Thorolf?’

The king answered, ’If Thorolf will yield him to my mercy, then shall he have life and limb, but his
men shall undergo punishment according to the charges against them.’

Upon this Aulvir Hnuf went to the room, and had Thorolf called to speak with him, and told him what
terms the king offered them.

Thorolf answered that he would not take of the king compulsory terms or reconciliation. ’Bid thou the
king allow us to go out, and then leave we things to go their own course.’

The king said: ’Set fire to the room; I will not waste my men by doing battle with him outside; I know
that Thorolf will work us great man-scathe if he come out, though he has fewer men than we.’

So fire was set to the room, and it soon caught, because the wood was dry and the walls tarred and the
roof thatched with birch-bark. Thorolf bade his men break up the wainscoting and get gable-beams,
and so burst through the planking; and when they got the beams, then as many men as could hold on to
it took one beam, and they rammed at the corner with the other beam-end so hard that the clasps flew
out, and the walls started asunder, and there was a wide outlet.

First went out Thorolf, then Thorgils Yeller, then the rest one after another. Fierce then was the fight;
nor for awhile could it be seen which had the better of it, for the room guarded the rear of Thorolf’s
force. The king lost many men before the room began to burn; then the fire attacked Thorolf’s side,
and many of them fell. Now Thorolf bounded forwards and hewed on either hand; small need to bind
the wounds of those who encountered him. He made for where the king’s standard was, and at this
moment fell Thorgils Yeller. But when Thorolf reached the shield-wall, he pierced with a stroke the
standard-bearer, crying, ’Now am I but three feet short of my aim.’ Then bore at him both sword and
spear; but the king himself dealt him his death-wound, and he fell forward at the king’s feet. The king
called out then, and bade them cease further slaughter; and they did so.

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.’