The king was coming, and Hakon sent word to the cabin that the ladies should come and see him.

We lay perhaps three hundred paces from the shore, and there was no sight to fray them now.
So they and we went to the after deck and watched, and there was not long to wait.

But it was Dalfin who came alone, and mounted on a fresh horse.

It was plain that he had been fighting, because he had his left arm in a sling, though he managed his horse none the worse for that.

He rode down to the beach in all haste, with a dozen men after him, and waved his hand to us.