Leif quoted from the speech of the Giant-wife Rimegerd to Helgi in the song: "Three nines of maiden, ride, But one rides before them, A white maid helmed: From their manes the steeds shake Dew into the deep dales, Hail upon the high woods." "It bodes well," said Biorn.

"They ride to choose those whom we slay.
There will be high doings ere Yule." "Not so well," said Leif.

"They come from the Norland, and it is our folk they go to choose.

I fear me Hightown will soon be full of widow women." At last came the day of sailing.

The six galleys of war were brought down from their sheds, and on the rollers for the launching he-goats were bound so that the keels slid blood-stained into the sea.