I would have you wear the arms as surety to your folk at first sight that you are indeed here again.

It may save words, and time." So I persuaded her, and she left me to don the war gear for the last time, as she told me.

She would dress herself even as she had been clad for the funeral and as we had found her.
Then the tide turned, and slowly the current from the sea found its way up the fjord and reached us, and we warped out of the narrow berth between the rocks, and manned the oars and set out on the last stage of our voyage.

The mast was lowered and housed by this time, and the ship ready for aught.

Only we did not hang the war boards along the gunwales, and we had no dragon head on the stem, for that Heidrek had not carried at any time.