"Shall I say aught of this to Kolskegg thy brother?" asked the shepherd.
"Go thou and sleep," says Gunnar; "I will tell Kolskegg."
The lad laid him down and fell asleep at once, but Gunnar took the shepherd's horse and laid his saddle on him; he took his shield, and girded him with his sword, Oliver's gift; he sets his helm on his head; takes his bill, and something sung loud in it, and his mother, Rannveig, heard it. She went up to him and said, "Wrathful art thou now, my son, and never saw I thee thus before".
Gunnar goes out, and drives the butt of his spear into the earth, and throws himself into the saddle, and rides away.
His mother, Rannveig, went into the sitting-room, where there was a great noise of talking.
"Ye speak loud," she says, "but yet the bill gave a louder sound when Gunnar went out."
Kolskegg heard what she said, and spoke, "This betokens no small tidings".
"That is well," says Hallgerda, "now they will soon prove whether he goes away from them weeping."
Kolskegg takes his weapons and seeks him a horse, and rides after Gunnar as fast as he could.
Gunnar rides across Acretongue, and so to Geilastofna, and thence to Rangriver, and down the stream to the ford at Hof. There were some women at the milking-post there. Gunnar jumped off his horse and tied him up. By this time the others were riding up towards him; there were flat stones covered with mud in the path that led down to the ford.