"What shall be done with all this troublesome treasure?
We cannot hale it all over Ireland." We thought it best to leave the bulk of it with the hermits, taking enough for all possible needs in silver coin and in the rings and links of gold, which were easily carried and hidden.

For we had heard from Dalfin how that between the courts of the Irish kings and that of Sigtryg of Dublin was little intercourse, save when fighting was on hand.

But of that there was no need to tell Gerda, there being peace at present, so far as the hermits knew, and good reason for at least civility when she was concerned.

As for the things we left here, they might he picked up on our way to Norway.
So we planned, and thereafter went back to the cells and to Dalfin, who woke at noontide or thereabout with a great hunger on him.
So that day wore on in utter quietness and rest, while the wind and sea fell.

Late in that afternoon, when the tide was at its lowest and the slack water was more still, Phelim came hastily and told us that there were fishers on the way from their village to us.
Whereat we wondered; for still the sea ran high, and we ourselves had not dreamed of putting out in our boat.
But when we reached the rocky shore which looked on the strait, so it was.