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Now, I'm thinking that it's just possible one of them had maybe left the siller for safety in the Kierfiold Cave where I where we found it, and clean forgotten to go back for it; just as old Betsy Matthew forgot the guineas she hid under the floor in the heel of a stocking." "Ay, I dinna doubt it may be so, Willie," observed Rosson. "But then, what about the dead man's head?"
These relics here of Ericson's, and those that the other lads have gotten, are just such things as would be buried in a viking's grave. The human skull in their midst puts the matter beyond a doubt." "Curious, very curious!" murmured Captain Gordon. "But, sir, how do you identify this supposed grave with that of the particular warrior you have mentioned?" "Kierfiold Haffling?
"This," said Andrew with a tone of conviction, "that what the lads have discovered is nothing less than the grave of Kierfiold Haffling, the great viking of Orkney."
But we walked along under the high banks as far as the northern extremity of the bay, in expectation of finding some sport on the outer shores. We sat for a long while talking, as schoolboys will talk, in a sheltered cleft of the headland, which, I believe, had once been a cavern, and was known by the name of the Kierfiold Helyer.
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