Whereat Skallagrim let Egil loose, but clutched at her. She broke away and took to her heels with
Skallagrim after her. So went they to the utmost point of Digra-ness. Then she leapt out from the rock
into the water. Skallagrim hurled after her a great stone, which struck her between the shoulders, and
neither ever came up again. The water there is now called Brakar-sound. But afterwards, in the
evening, when they came home to Borg, Egil was very angry. Skallagrim and everybody else were set
at table, but Egil had not yet come to his place. He went into the fire-hall, and up to the man who there
had the overseeing of work and the management of moneys for Skallagrim, and was most dear to him.
Egil dealt him his deathblow, then went to his seat. Skallagrim spoke not a word about it then, and
thenceforward the matter was kept quiet. But father and son exchanged no word good or bad, and so
that winter passed.

The next summer after this Thorolf came out, as was told above. And when he had been in Iceland one
winter, in the spring following he made ready his ship in Brakar-sound. But when he was quite ready,
then one day Egil went to his father, and asked him to give him an outfit.

’I wish,’ said he, ’to go out with Thorolf.’

Skallagrim asked if he had spoken at all on that matter with Thorolf. Egil said he had not. Skallagrim
bade him do that first. But when Egil started the question with Thorolf, he said:

’’Tis not likely that I shall take you abroad with me; if your father thinks he cannot manage you here
in his house, I have no confidence for this, to take you with me to foreign lands; for it will not do to
show there such temper as you do here.’

’Maybe,’ said Egil, ’neither of us will go.’

In the night came on a furious gale, a south-wester. But when it was dark, and now flood-tide, Egil
came where the ship lay. He went out on to the ship, and outside the tenting; he cut asunder the cables
that were on the seaward side; then, hurrying back to land by the bridge, he at once shot out the bridge,
and cut the cables that were upon land. Then the ship was driven out into the firth. But when Thorolf’s
men were aware that the ship was adrift, they jumped into the boat; but the wind was far too strong for
them to get anything done. The ship drifted over to Duck-kyle, and on the islands there; but Egil went
home to Borg.

And when people got to know of the trick that Egil had played, the more part blamed it. Egil said he
should before long do Thorolf more harm and mischief if he would not take him away. But then others
mediated between them, and the end was that Thorolf took Egil, and he went out with him that
summer.

When Thorolf came on shipboard, at once taking the axe which Skallagrim had given into his hands,
he cast it overboard into the deep so that it nevermore came up. Thorolf went his way in the summer,
and his voyage sped well, and they came out to Hordaland. He at once stood northwards to Sogn.
There it had happened in the winter that Brynjolf had fallen sick and died, and his sons had shared the
heritage. Thord had Aurland, the estate on which his father had dwelt. He had become a liege-man of
the king, and was made a baron. Thord’s daughter was named Rannveig, the mother of Thord and
Helgi, this Thord being father if Ingiridr whom king Olaf had to wife. Helgi was father of Brynjolf,
father of Serk, Sogn, and Svein.