It lay far up the firth, Thord said, and the ships could not go so far.

But Einar was very brave, and when he had thought for a little while he said: "Well, then, I will take boat and go to Sigurd's mound and see if he ails aught.

Will any man come with me, however ?" I liked not the errand, as may be supposed, but I could not leave my foster father to go alone.
"I will be with you," I said.

"Will not Thord come also ?" "Ay," the grim Orkney man answered.
Now all our crew were listening to us, and I looked down the long gangways by chance, and when I did so no man would meet my eye.
They feared lest they should be made to go to this haunted place, as it seemed--all but one man, who sat on the mast step swinging his feet.

This was Kolgrim the Tall, the captain of the fore deck, a young man and of few words, but a terrible swordsman, and knowing much of sea craft.