summer's noon
`` They are ill matched against the vikings , with all their ships , '' returned Klerkon . `` And I am told that their king is a man of peace ; Edgar the Peaceable , they name him . And talking of kings , how fares King Valdemar ? '' `` As sunny as a summer 's noon , '' answered Sigurd . `` Come , then , on board my ship , and let us pledge to him in a full horn of mead , '' said the viking . And he drew Sigurd with him across the gangplank , and they went below and sat drinking until one of the shipmen standing on the vessel 's lypting , or poop deck , sounded a shrill horn as a sign that the ship was about to leave the harbour . Then Sigurd came ashore and went about the town on the king 's business , and he thought no more of the yellow haired slave boy until the evening time .