Once or twice Asbiorn called to the noisiest to be still, but they heeded him little.
Soon, however, the noise ceased, and we thought that most of the men slept.

After that was no sound but the wash of the waves, and the hum of the sail, and the creak of the great steering oar as Asbiorn met the luff of the ship across the long, smooth sweep of the waves.
We, too, grew drowsy, for the cabin was close and warm beneath the sunny decks.

All that could be said was said, and so we slept, if it were but uneasily..