Skallagrim answered: ’It is well known how far superior to me was Thorolf in every point, and he got
no luck by serving thee, O king. Now will I not take that counsel; serve thee I will not, for I know I
should get no luck by yielding thee such service as I should wish and as would be worthy. Methinks I
should fail herein more than Thorolf.’

The king was silent, and his face became blood-red. Aulvir at once turned away, and bade Grim and
his men go out. They did so. They went out, and took their weapons, and Aulvir bade them begone
with all haste. He and many with him escorted them to the water-side. Before parting with Skallagrim,
Aulvir said:

’Kinsman, thy journey to the king ended otherwise than I would have chosen. I urged much thy
coming hither; now, I entreat thee, go home with all speed, and come not in the way of king Harold,
unless there be better agreement between you than now seems likely, and keep thee well from the king
and from his men.’

Then Grim and his company went over the water; but Aulvir with his men, going to the ships drawn
up by the water-side, so hacked them about that none was fit to launch. For they saw men coming
down from the king’s house, a large body well armed and advancing furiously. These men king Harold
had sent after them to slay Grim. The king had found words soon after Grim went out, and said:

’This I see in that tall baldhead: that he is brim full of wolfishness, and he will, if he can reach them,
work scathe on men whom we should be loth to lose. Ye may be sure, ye against whom he may bear a
grudge, that he will spare none, if he get a chance. Wherefore go after him and slay him.’

Upon this they went and came to the water, and saw no ship there fit to launch. So they went back and
told the king of their journey, and that Grim and his comrades would now have got clear over the lake.

Skallagrim went his way with his comrades till he reached home; he then told Kveldulf of this journey.
Kveldulf showed him well pleased that Skallagrim had not gone to the king on this errand to take
service under him; he still said, as before, that from the king they would get only loss and no amends.
Kveldulf and Skallagrim spoke often of their plans, and on this they were agreed, that they would not
be able to remain in the land any more than other men who were at enmity with the king, but their
counsel must be to go abroad. And it seemed to them desirable to seek Iceland, for good reports were
given about choice of land there. Already friends and acquaintances of theirs had gone thither - to wit,
Ingolf Arnarson, and his companions - and had taken to them land and homestead in Iceland. Men
might take land there free of cost, and choose their homestead at will.

So they quite settled to break up their household and go abroad.

Thorir Hroaldson had in his childhood been fostered with Kveldulf, and he and Skallagrim were about
of an age, and as foster-brothers were dear friends. Thorir had become a baron of the king’s at the time
when the events just told happened, but the friendship between him and Skallagrim continued.

Early in the spring Kveldulf and his company made ready their ships. They had plenty of good craft to
choose from; they made ready two large ships of burden, and took in each thirty able-bodied men,
besides women and children. All the movable goods that they could carry they took with them, but
their lands none dared buy, for fear of the king’s power. And when they were ready, they sailed away:
first to the islands called Solundir, which are many and large, and so scored with bays that few men (it
is said) know all their havens.