Now we must take up the story, and say that Njal spoke thus to Hauskuld, his foster-son, and said—
"I would seek thee a match."
Hauskuld bade him settle the matter as he pleased, and asked whether he was most likely to turn his eyes.
"There is a woman called Hildigunna," answers Njal, "and she is the daughter of Starkad, the son of Thord Freyspriest. She is the best match I know of."
"See thou to it, foster-father," said Hauskuld; "that shall be my choice which thou choosest."
"Then we will look thitherward," says Njal.
A little while after, Njal called on men to go along with him. Then the sons of Sigfus, and Njal's sons, and Kari Solmund's son, all of them fared with him and they rode east to Swinefell.
There they got a hearty welcome.
The day after, Njal and Flosi went to talk alone, and the speech of Njal ended thus, that he said—
"This is my errand here, that we have set out on a wooing-journey, to ask for thy kinswoman Hildigunna."