noon
`` By my troth , Sigurd , '' Alwin cried eagerly , `` when things come to one 's hand like that , I believe it is a sign that he should try his luck with them ! Would we have time to go there to-day ? '' `` Certainly ; do you not see that the light is only just fading from the mountain tops ? so it can be but a little past noon . The only difficulty is that the ice may not be in a condition for us to cross the fiord . A warm land-wind has been blowing for three days ; and even in the North , where the seal-hunters go , the ice often breaks up under them . But now allow me to get my bearings .