Thus he could not bear so much as to countenance excessive indulgence.

Now the sons of Swerting, fearing that they would have to pay to Ingild the penalty of their father's crime, were fain to forestall his vengeance by a gift, and gave him their sister in marriage.

Antiquity relates that she bore him sons, Frode, Fridleif, Ingild, and Olaf (whom some say was the son of Ingild's sister).
Ingild's sister Helga had been led by amorous wooing to return the flame of a certain low-born goldsmith, who was apt for soft words, and furnished with divers of the little gifts which best charm a woman's wishes.

For since the death of the king there had been none to honour the virtues of the father by attention to the child; she had lacked protection, and had no guardians.

When Starkad had learnt this from the repeated tales of travellers, he could not bear to let the wantonness of the smith pass unpunished.