These brothers, moreover, know where we can land, which was the difficulty I most feared.

They are terrible cliff walls yonder." "How far must we go before we can find a landing ?" I asked Phelim on this.
"Some five miles or more," he said, after a little thought.

"There is a cove and beach at the foot of a valley.

The fishers took me there once to help a sick man.

I can find the place." So it seemed that a village lay there also, which was good hearing, for the sake of Gerda, even if it were naught but of turf huts.
Thence we could send a message to Dalfin.
Now, while we spoke thus, we were getting the boat down to the water quickly enough between the four of us.