Our plan was to land and surround the building, and so take Arnkel if we could without any fighting.
Hidden away at the foot of a valley here was a little village, but at first we saw no signs that we were noticed.

Presently, however, when Asbiorn had taken the ship into a berth between two of the islets, and the men were getting her shore lines fast to mooring posts which seemed to be used only now and then, a boat with two men in it came off to us thence, and we were hailed to know what we needed in these waters.
Asbiorn answered, saying that we were friends, waiting for tide up the fjord, and they went ashore on the islet next them, and came across it to us.

Then Gerda rose up from where she sat watching them and called them by name, and they started as if they had seen a ghost, so that she laughed at them.

At that they took courage, and came nearer.
The stern of the ship was not more than a couple of fathoms from the rock, and there they stood, and it was good to hear their welcome of the lady whom they had deemed lost.

Then they came on board, and there was rejoicing enough, both in the finding, and in the peace which would come with Gerda's return.