'Midst the deeds one man has wrought,
If this deed should come to nought?"
The good wife said, "Surely thou art like unto very few men who are now living on the earth."
So she set him in the high seat, and all things she did well to him, and now time wore on till Thorfinn's coming home was looked for.
CHAP. XX.
How Thorfinn met Grettir at Haramsey again.
After Yule Thorfinn made ready for coming home, and he let those folk go with good gifts whom he had bidden to his feast. Now he fares with his following till he comes hard by his boat-stands; they saw a ship lying on the strand, and soon knew it for Thorfinn's bark, the big one. Now Thorfinn had as yet had no news of the vikings, he bade his men hasten landward, "For I fear," said he, "that friends have not been at work here."