Thrilled with fear of her husband's pursuit, and utterly despairing of escape beyond, she begged and bade her companions to cast away the money, declaring that they must lose either life or riches; the short and only path to safety lay in flinging away the treasure, nor could any aid to escape be found save in the loss of their possessions.

Therefore, said she, they must follow the example of the manner in which Frode was said to have saved himself among the Britons.
She added, that it was not paying a great price to lay down the Swedes' own goods for them to regain; if only they could themselves gain a start in flight, by the very device which would check the others in their pursuit, and if they seemed not so much to abandon their own possessions as to restore those of other men.

Not a moment was lost; in order to make the flight swifter, they did the bidding of the queen.

The gold is cleared from their purses; the riches are left for the enemy to seize.
Some declare that Urse kept back the money, and strewed the tracks of her flight with copper that was gilt over.

For it was thought credible that a woman who could scheme such great deeds could also have painted with lying lustre the metal that was meant to be lost, mimicking riches of true worth with the sheen of spurious gold.