By that time the dusk was falling, but we were sure that all along the shores the Irish watched us as they had watched us as we came.
The beacon fires had died down now, for their work was done, and the fair reaches of water were still and peaceful in the evening glow, looking even more beautiful than in the morning, for the tide was full to the banks.

Gerda came with the other ladies and sat on deck, and spoke with Hakon of the treasure, which he promised to seek with daylight.
"I would have you take it, King Hakon," she said.

"I do not altogether know its worth, but it may go toward the freeing of Norway from Eric and the men who follow him." "Nay," he answered, "I cannot take it from you." "Once," she said, and she looked at me as I sat on the deck hard by with Bertric, "once--it seems long ago, though it is but so few days--I would have sent it into the deep with him who gathered it.
These friends of mine over-persuaded me, saying that I should need it.

Now I am in your care, and I have not so much as to hire a ship to take me home.

It was Thorwald's.