"This ship of ours was too precious for Heidrek to let go easily.

So soon as that fog cleared, and he found we were not ahead on the Norway shore, he would put about.

He knew that we must be undermanned, being so close to us.

Then he would get back to where he lost us, and thereafter would guess the only course we could have taken, for the matter of handling the sail would settle that.

We could not have gone far ere the wind dropped.