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Updated: August 12, 2024
As they prepared to leave, we all three, the farmers from Mular and I, stood there on the rocks to see how Hrolfur would manage. The crew had furled the sails and sat down to the oars, whilst old Hrolfur stood in front of the crossbeam, holding the rudder-line. They weren't rowing though, but held their oars up, waiting for their opportunity.
Hrolfur's face was wreathed in smiles: he made no answer, but slipping off the rudder in case it should touch bottom he laid it down across the stern. We were given a royal welcome by the fanners from Mular, and all that I needed to further me on my journey was readily available and willingly granted.
It won't be long now before we get to Mular Creek, he said with his mouth still wide-open. I was wide awake at once when I heard this, and raised myself up on my elbow. The mountain I had seen from the village which then had been wrapped in a dark haze now towered directly above us, rocky and enormous, with black sea-crags at its feet.
At any rate he's not dependent on anyone else, and he's the sole owner of his boat and tackle. He's rolling in money, the old devil, said the man at the mast, wiping the spray from his face with his hand. Then they began to tell me about Mular Island and the life they would lead there in the coming week.
I was meant to understand that this was exactly what he had expected. After another interval the doctor said: You are going to do this traveller a favour then, Hrolfur? Oh, well, the boat won't mind taking him. In other words, I was to be nothing but so much ballast. Don't you think it's going to be tricky landing there in Mular Creek? Hrolfur straightened up, putting his hand to his back.
But one day a sudden storm had caught them far out to sea, well outside the mouth of the fjord. Rowing hard, in the teeth of wind and tide, they managed to reach the cliffs, but by that time they were quite exhausted. Their idea had been to land at Mular Creek, but unfortunately their boat overturned as they tried to enter.
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