When her time drew near, and the girl growing big, betrayed her outraged chastity, the father, not knowing to whom his daughter had given herself to be defiled, persisted in asking the girl herself who was the unknown seducer.

She steadfastly affirmed that she had had no one to share her bed except her handmaid, and he made the affair over to the king to search into.

He would not allow an innocent servant to be branded with an extraordinary charge, and was not ashamed to prove another's innocence by avowing his own guilt.

By this generosity he partially removed the woman's reproach, and prevented an absurd report from being sown in the ears of the wicked.

Also he added, that the son to be born of her was of his own line, and that he wished him to be named Ubbe.