As for myself, I purpose to leave my home, where I have been put to shame, and to seek my fortune in other lands." Now, the most of those present thought this a wise saying and were ready to abide by it.

Yet, unluckily enough, it was made of no account by what had slipped from my lips at its end.

Although many held me strange and fey, all men loved me because I had a kind heart and gentleness, also because of the wrongs that I had suffered and for something which they saw in me, which they believed would one day make of me a great skald and a wise leader.

When she heard me announce thus publicly that I was determined to leave them, Thora, my mother, whispered in the ears of Thorvald, my father, and Ragnar and others also said to each other that this might not be.

It was Ragnar, the headlong, who sprang up and spoke the first.
"Is my brother to be driven from us and his home like a thrall caught in theft because a traitor and a false woman have put him to shame ?" he said.