"Your friends are after him." The ships paid off to the wind and followed Heidrek.

At that time we were broad off the end of the island, and I saw it again as we had first sighted it from the sea in the gale.

Phelim and Fergus stood looking at it and the swift boat which was nearing the beach, and I joined them.

The good men were full of fears for their brethren, but the Danes were gathered quietly on the beach, watching the boat.

There were five of them, and Hakon had sent eight men ashore.
The long reef showed up with a fringe of curling breakers over it, and the boat could not cross it.