Then Egil rode away till he came to Lambstead, where he was made heartily welcome; he was to be
there three nights. That same evening that Egil left home, Skallagrim had a horse saddled. He then
rode out just when others were going to bed. When he went away, he bore before him on his knees a
very large chest; but under his arm he carried a brazen kettle. It has been since held for certain that he
let down one or both into Krum’s bog-hole, and dropped a large stone slab atop of them. Skallagrim
came home about midnight, and then went to his place and lay down in his clothes. But in the
morning, when it was light and people were dressed, there sat Skallagrim forward on the seat’s edge,
already dead, and so stiff that they could not straighten him nor move him, though they tried all they
could.

Then a man was put on horseback, who galloped off as hard as he might to Lambstead. At once he
sought Egil, and told him these tidings. Then Egil took his weapons and clothes and rode home,
reaching Borg by eventide. And at once on dismounting he went in, and to the passage that was round
the hall, with doors leading from the passage to the seats inside. Egil went on to the chief seat, and
took Skallagrim by the shoulders, and forced him backwards, and laid him down in the seat, and
rendered then the services to the dead. Then Egil bade them take digging tools and break open the wall
on the south side. When this was done, then Egil supported the head and others the feet of Skallagrim;
and so they bore him athwart the house out through the breach in the wall just made. Then they bore
him immediately down to Nausta-ness. There for the night a tent was set over the body; but in the
morning with flood-tide Skallagrim was put on a boat and rowed out to Digra-ness. There Egil had a
mound raised on the point of the ness. Therein was laid Skallagrim, with his horse, his weapons, and
his smithy tools. It is not told that any valuables were laid in the mound beside him.

Egil took the heritage, lands and chattels. Thenceforward he ruled the house. With Egil there was
Thordis, daughter of Thorolf and Asgerdr.

Chapter 62 - Egil’s voyage to England.
King Eric ruled over Norway one year after the death of his father king Harold, before Hacon
Athelstan’s foster-son, another son of Harold, came out of the west from England; and in that same
summer Egil Skallagrimsson went to Iceland. Hacon went northwards to Throndheim. He was there
accepted as king. He and Eric were for the winter both king in Norway. But in the following spring
each gathered an army. Hacon had by far the larger numbers; the reason of this was that he made it law
in the land that every man should own his patrimony, where king Harold had enslaved all, rich and
poor alike. Eric saw no other choice but to flee the land; so he went abroad with Gunnhilda his wife
and their children. Lord Arinbjorn was king Eric’s foster-brother, and foster-father of his son. Dear to
the king was he above all his barons; the king had set him as ruler over all the Firth-folk. Arinbjorn
was with the king when he left the land; they first went westwards over the main to the Orkneys. There
Eric gave his daughter Ragnhildr in marriage to earl Arnfinn. After that he went south with his force
along the coast of Scotland, and harried there; thence still south to England, and harried there. And
when king Athelstan heard of this, he gathered force and went against Eric. But when they met, terms
were proposed, and the terms were that king Athelstan gave to Eric the government of
Northumberland; and he was to be for king Athelstan defender of the land against the Scots and Irish.
Athelstan had made Scotland tributary under him after the death of king Olaf, but that people were
constantly disloyal to him. The story goes that Gunnhilda had a spell worked, this spell being that Egil
Skallagrimsson should find no rest in Iceland till she had seen him. But in that summer when Hacon
and Eric had met and contended for Norway, all travel to any land from Norway was forbidden; so in
that summer there came to Iceland from Norway neither ship nor tidings. Egil Skallagrimsson abode at
his home.