Said Rolf: "The ewe is Einar's. Take it to him, and ask payment for the hay which has been eaten."
So they take the ewe to Einar, and bring back silver. "Keep that for yourselves," Rolf said, "but will the ewe stay now at home?"
"Her pen is not strong," Hallvard said.
So on the morrow those two came again, bringing the ewe a second time; Rolf sent them for money as before. This time they brought back a gold arm-ring; so Rolf knew that Einar and Grani had taken with them nigh empty purses, and he was glad. He took the ring, giving the men silver, and said to them as before: "Will the ewe stay now at home?"
Hallvard answered, "We left Grani strengthening the pen, but still it is not high."
And on the morrow they brought the ewe, saying, "See how fat she hath gorged herself, master."
Then said Rolf, "Go now and say to Einar: 'A third time hath thine ewe trespassed; now must thou pay not only damages, but the trespass fine, or else bring this to the courts.'"
They went and brought back jewels, one arm-ring and two brooches; and Hallvard said, "All that he had Einar gave, rather than trust himself to the law."
Rolf gave them money, saying: "If the ewe wanders a fourth time, she will become mine. Is her pen strong?"
"Grani has no more wood to make the pen higher," answered Hallvard, "but he was tying her with a rope."