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Updated: July 18, 2025
"You have seen the like before then?" asked Dalfin. "Not once or twice. And for the same reason the Danes." "Have you fought with them?" "I was at my own place when we beat them off once." So we stood and watched the fires until they twinkled as far as we could see to the eastward.
But after the way of my forebears, both Norse and Scottish, I was somewhat bigger than most men whom I have met, though not so much in height as in breadth of shoulder. Maybe, however, I was taller than Dalfin, for I think he was not over six feet.
Dalfin threw it open, and laughed also. It was full of the holiday clothes of some half-dozen of the head courtmen of the old king; blue and brown jerkins, and white and blue hose, short red cloaks, and fair linen underwear. They had brought it for the feasting after the mound was made, and had forgotten it in the onset of Heidrek. I have seen men of some rank wear no better.
"Ask him to send men and help us get our stores ashore and out of the way of the fisher folk, who will be here as soon as they see the wreck," said Bertric. "No need to tell him that the stores are treasure for the most part." "Tell him it is treasure, and it will be all the safer," Dalfin said. "These are holy monks, of a sort who care for poverty more than wealth.
The sheet had fouled the great cleat which was bolted to the deck beams amidships aft for the backstay, and that was easily cleared. Then we swung the yard fore and aft, Dalfin hauling as he was bidden, with fixed intent to haul till further orders, which was all we needed from him.
And while he did this, he stood on one side, that he might not pry into the chamber idly, as it were, while Dalfin and I could see nothing from where we stood. Only a little peat smoke seemed to come out gently when the timber had gone. It did but need that two more timbers should be moved thus, and there was room enough for a man to pass through.
There was time to tow her head round when we knew whence the morning wind would blow. Bertric coiled down the fall of the tack purchase, and nodded to Dalfin. "Food now, if there is to be any," he said. "What is in yon kettle?" Now that we were forward we had seen that against this end of the penthouse no fagots had been piled.
And Osric added that they should heave a big stone into her if she did not. "Spies, most like," he said. They hailed the boat, and had an answer at once. "Tell Hakon that hither comes a courtman of Queen Gerda's." Hakon said that it must be some man who had escaped; but Bertric and I knew at once. "It is Dalfin the Prince," we said. "He has had to fly from those brothers of his."
"I thought you some of these heathen Danes or Norse men, rather, from your arms. But I pray you do not think that I fled from martyrdom." "You fled from somewhat, father," said Dalfin dryly; "what was it?" The father pointed and smiled uneasily. "My son," he said slowly, "I came to this place to be free from the sight of of aught but holy men.
You drove her ashore, and the honour falls to us. We should only make a big fire of her and dance round it. Where is the other?" "Your men took her round the bend below. There will be no more trouble with Heidrek. We have his son, Asbiorn, here with us." "Give him to me," said Dalfin at once; "give him to me, King Hakon.
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