thereby is the craft of their shipwrights proven ; and these people are called by men the ythlings , ~ the children of the waves , but the elves call the island eneadur , and its folk the shipmen of the west. > well did these receive aelfwine and his pilot at the thronging quays of their harbour in the north , and it seemed to aelfwine that the man of the sea was not unknown to them , and that they held him in the greatest awe and reverence , hearkening to his requests as though they were a king 's commands .