The ship was hard and fast aground now, and we pulled up abreast of her slowly, having no mind to share her fate.

Whether the Irish took any of her crew with them as captives I do not know, but I saw her decks, and it seemed hardly possible.

So terrible a sight were they, that I feared lest Gerda should in any way see it.

But the doors of the cabin had been shut, doubtless lest the fighting should fray the ladies.
"Will you venture farther, King Hakon ?" asked the pilot.
"We will take one ship farther," he said.

"The other shall bide here, and see that this ship is not burnt by these wild folk.
Mayhap we shall want her." Thoralf laughed at that.