"The rest is forgotten.

Now we have no long way to go before I am again at home." Now the land rose again from the level of the Jederen marshes we had passed, and we had high black cliffs to port and ahead of us.
Along their feet the great rollers of the open sea broke, thundering, even in this quiet weather, and the spray shot up and fell in white clouds unceasingly.

It was wonderful even now, and what it would be like in a day of gale and heavy seas might be guessed.

And still we held on, with Asbiorn at the helm, though I could see as yet no opening in the mighty walls that barred our way onward.

Gerda at my side laughed at me, in all pride in her homecoming, and in the wild coast at which I was wondering.
The cliffs seemed to part us as we neared those before us, and I saw a deep and narrow cleft between them into which we steered.