And it chanced that I was the first to see his sail from the higher land along the coast, south of the haven, where I was riding with my falcon and the great dog Vig, which Raud and his brother would have me take for my own after the wolf hunt.
Gladly I rode hack with my news to find Ingvar in the ship garth, and there I told him who came.
"A ship, maybe.

How know you she is Halfden's ?" he said carelessly.
"Why, how does any sailor know his own ship ?" I asked in surprise.
Then he turned at once, and smiled at me fairly for the first time.
"I had forgotten," he said.

"Come, let us look at her again." And I was not mistaken, though the jarl was not so sure as I for half an hour or more.

When he was certain, he said: "Come, let us make what welcome for Halfden that we may." And we went back to the hall, and at once was the great horn blown to assemble the men; and the news went round quickly, so that everywhere men and women alike put aside their work, and hurried down to the wharf side.

And in Ingvar's house the thralls wrought to prepare a great feast in honour of Jarl Halfden's homecoming.
Soon I stood with the jarls and Osritha at the landing place, and behind us were the courtmen in their best array.