But beyond that the mountains were not far, though in no wise so high as those farther north.

And at last Gerda showed us the place where she had thought to lay Thorwald, her grandfather, to rest in his ship.

We could see the timber slipway, which still had been left where it was made for that last beaching, and we could see, too, that here and there the land was turned up into heaps, where the place for the mound had been prepared.

There was a little village also, and a hut or two had been burnt.
"Our doing," said Asbiorn.

"Forgive us, Queen Gerda." "You at least had no part therein," she said gently.