"It is not fitting that here the old warrior should be drifted to and fro, well nigh at the mercy of the wind, with the chances of a lee shore or of folk who make prey of hapless seafarers presently.

A sea burial such as many a good man of our kin has found will be best.

I could ask no more for myself." "And what of the treasure ?" I asked.

"Shall that go with him ?" "It is Gerda's, and she must say," he answered.

"Yet she will need it." Then Dalfin said: "It will be hard to tell her so, but she must not part with it.