Then Grim said softly to Helgi—
"Why should we not say. What know I whether Thrain will repay us with any good?"
"We should not tell a whit more for that," says Helgi, "when his life lies at stake."
"Maybe," said Grim, "the Earl will turn his vengeance on us, for he is so wroth that some one will have to fall before him."
"That must not move us," says Helgi, "but still we will pull our ship out, and so away to sea as soon as ever we get a wind."
So they rowed out under an isle that lay there, and wait there for a fair breeze.
The Earl went about among the sailors, and tried them all, but they, one and all, denied that they knew aught of Hrapp.
Then the Earl said, "Now we will go to Thrain, my brother-in-arms, and he will give Hrapp up, if he knows anything of him".
After that they took a long-ship and went off to the merchant ship.
Thrain sees the Earl coming, and stands up and greets him kindly. The Earl took his greeting well and spoke thus—