noon
`` Here have we luck , '' said Bernulf . `` To Eric may I speak freely . '' `` Yea , verily , '' answered Herebald . `` And she is loaded with herring also and saileth on the morrow toward noon . Go , then , and speak freely , as thou sayest . '' Bernulf did so ; and the Captain Eric entered heartily into his plans as Bernulf laid them before him . `` The loons ! ''