It is the crew he has gathered which I would leave, not him." We had not gained on the two pirate ships.

Now they were rounding that headland whence they had come, and were altering their course.
Asbiorn said that they were making for the river mouth, and half an hour thereafter we opened it out and saw that Heidrek was far within it, heading landward.

The beacon fires blazed up afresh as the watchers knew that he had returned, and presently each fire had a second alongside it.

Men thought that Heidrek had brought us to help him raid the land.
There were Norsemen on board, men from Dublin, who knew the mouth of the river as well as need be, and better than Heidrek, who had been into it but this once before.

One of them piloted the ships after him, for Hakon meant to end the business even as he had said, here and now, if he could, and sent for Bertric that he might tell him more of the enemy.