"We see it from time to time, and it brings luck.

Now it greets me and you--but it is not the old sign to me any longer." "It is strange," said Bertric.

"Once you called on Asa Thor--and here is that one to whom you called, and yonder--" "No, no," she said, clinging to me, "it is no longer Thor's hammer." "It is the sign which shall be held dear here," said Phelim.

"It is the sign that all good has come to this place." "So may it be," said Gerda softly, and I thought that the reflection of the cross made a glimmering pathway from the hall to the ship which bore her homeward.
But I had no time to wonder how and why that sign was there, for now we were seen, and torches began to flicker along the wharf.

Our pilots spoke to Asbiorn, and he passed the word for men to go forward with the shore warps, and the oar strokes slowed down.