It is told how one day the father and son, Hoskuld and Olaf, went forth from their booth to find Egil.  Egil greeted them well, for he and Hoskuld knew each other very well by word of mouth.  Hoskuld now broaches the wooing on behalf of Olaf, and asks for the hand of Thorgerd.  She was also at the Thing.  Egil took the matter well, and said he had always heard both father and son well spoken of, “and I also know, Hoskuld,” said Egil, “that you are a high-born man and of great worth, and Olaf is much renowned on account of his journey, and it is no wonder that such men should look high for a match, for he lacks neither family nor good looks; but yet this must be talked over with Thorgerd, for it is no man’s task to get Thorgerd for wife against her will.”  Hoskuld said, “I wish, Egil, that you would talk this over with your daughter.”  Egil said that that should be done. [Sidenote:  Thorgerd’s refusal] Egil now went away to find his daughter, and they talked together.  Egil said, “There is here a man named Olaf, who is Hoskuld’s son, and he is now one of the most renowned of men.  Hoskuld, his father, has broached a wooing on behalf of Olaf, and has sued for your hand; and I have left that matter mostly for you to deal with.  Now I want to know your answer.  But it seems to me that it behoves you to give a good answer to such a matter, for this match is a noble one.”  Thorgerd answered, “I have often heard you say that you love me best of all your children, but now it seems to me you make that a falsehood if you wish me to marry the son of a bonds-woman, however goodly and great a dandy he may be.”  Egil said, “In this matter you are not so well up, as in others.  Have you not heard that he is the son of the daughter of Myrkjartan, king of Ireland? so that he is much higher born on his mother’s side than on his father’s, which, however, would be quite good enough for us.”  Thorgerd would not see this; and so they dropped the talk, each being somewhat of a different mind.  The next day Egil went to Hoskuld’s booth.  Hoskuld gave him a good welcome, and so they fell a-talking together.  Hoskuld asked how this wooing matter had sped.  Egil held out but little hope, and told him all that had come to pass.  Hoskuld said it looked like a closed matter, “Yet I think you have behaved well.”  Olaf did not hear this talk of theirs.  After that Egil went away.  Olaf now asks, “How speeds the wooing?” Hoskuld said, “It pointed to slow speed on her side.” [Sidenote:  Olaf proposes himself] Olaf said, “It is now as I told you, father, that I should take it very ill if in answer (to the wooing) I should have to take shaming words, seeing that the broaching of the wooing gives undue right to the wooed.  And now I shall have my way so far, that this shall not drop here.  For true is the saw, that ‘others’ errands eat the wolves’; and now I shall go straightway to Egil’s booth.”  Hoskuld bade him have his own way.  Olaf now dressed himself in this way, that he had on