“A double game, foster-brother,” said Biorn; “and two ways to meet thy play.”
Frithiof said: “Thy play is to fall first on the knave, yet the double game is sure to be.”
No other outcome of his errand had Hilding: he went back speedily to the kings, and told them Frithiof's answer.
They asked Hilding what he made out of those words. He said:
“Whereas he spake of the bare place he will have been thinking of the lack in this journey of yours; but when he said he would beset the red piece, that will mean Ingibiorg, your sister; so give ye all the heed ye may to her. But whereas I threatened him with ill from you, Biorn deemed the game a double one; but Frithiof said that the knave must be set on first, speaking thereby of King Ring.”
So then the brethren arrayed them for departing; but, ere they went, they let bring Ingibioig and eight women with her to Baldur's Meads, saying that Frithiof would not be so mad rash as to go see her thither, since there was none who durst make riot there.
Then fared those brethren south to Jadar, and met King Ring in Sogn-Sound.
Now, herewith was King Ring most of all wroth that the brothers had said that they accounted it a shame to fight with a man so old that he might not get a-horseback unholpen.