Moreover, the way to these regions was impassable and filled with obstacles, and therefore hard for mortal men to travel.

For the greater part of the road was perpetually beset with extraordinary cold.

So he advised him to harness a car with reindeer, by means of whose great speed he could cross the hard-frozen ridges.

And when he had got to the place, he should set up his tent away from the sun in such wise that it should catch the shadow of the cave where Miming was wont to be; while he should not in return cast a shade upon Miming, so that no unaccustomed darkness might be thrown and prevent the Satyr from going out.

Thus both the bracelet and the sword would be ready to his hand, one being attended by fortune in wealth and the other by fortune in war, and each of them thus bringing a great prize to the owner.