Condemning the decision of the assembly, she said that it was wrong to relieve distress by murder of kindred, and declared that a plan both more honourable and more desirable for the good of their souls and bodies would be, to preserve respect towards their parents and children, and choose by lot men who should quit the country.
And if the lot fell on old men and weak, then the stronger should offer to go into exile in their place, and should of their own free will undertake to bear the burden of it for the feeble.

But those men who had the heart to save their lives by crime and impiety, and to prosecute their parents and their children by so abominable a decree, did not deserve life; for they would be doing a work of cruelty and not of love.
Finally, all those whose own lives were dearer to them than the love of their parents or their children, deserved but ill of their country.
These words were reported to the assembly, and assented to by the vote of the majority.

So the fortunes of all were staked upon the lot and those upon whom it fell were doomed to be banished.

Thus those who had been loth to obey necessity of their own accord had now to accept the award of chance.

So they sailed first to Bleking, and then, sailing past Moring, they came to anchor at Gothland; where, according to Paulus, they are said to have been prompted by the goddess Frigg to take the name of the Longobardi (Lombards), whose nation they afterwards founded.
In the end they landed at Rugen, and, abandoning their ships, began to march overland.