You have half an hour or so." Ale and beef there were, ready for me, and I took them and sat down at the feet of the old chief, with my legs hanging over the edge of the fore deck.

Thence I could see that Thorleif was forward, and that away to the northward of us a ship was heading across our course, under sail only.

The two other Danish ships were far astern of us, but their oars were flashing in the sun as they made after us.
Then I looked northward for England, but there was only the sea's rim, and over that a bank of white summer clouds.

Under the sun, to the south, was a long blue line of hills whose shapes were strange to me, and that was the Frankish shore.

We were far across the Channel, and still heading eastward.
"Thrond," I said, "are you after that ship yonder ?" "Ay.