Now it is said that had Einar lighted the beacon, good would have come of it; for he who saves life is minded to continue in right doing.
Then after a while the carline sang again. She sang:
"Thy rocks beneath,
Men fight with death.
Go, see what woe
Lies there below!"
Einar hurries his men out into the storm, and himself after them. Now though the gale continues the moon is bright at last, and men can see their way.
On the rocks was a ship, and her timbers were breaking away from her and driving down into the cove to the lee. Thither Einar sent most of his men, to save what they could from the sea, of wood, chests, cloths, and all merchandise. But he watched from the cliffs, with Ondott and Hallvard and Hallmund, to see if men escaped from the fury of the sea. He saw no living thing at all, until at the last one man came climbing the cliff toward him. That one had a rope around his waist; when he reached a shelf of rock he made the rope fast, and drew on it, and pulled up a long case and a bundle: he cast down the rope again, and drew up weapons, and cast again, and drew up clothes.
"Fishes he," asked Einar, "with a hook on that rope?"
Said Hallvard: "Other men must be below, helping him."