Soon she began to sigh, and entreat Eric that he should never fail to help his brother, whose mother had heaped on him fortune so rich and strange: for by tasting a single savoury meal he had clearly attained sovereign wit and eloquence, besides the promise of success in combat.

She added also, that Roller was almost as capable of good counsel, and that he should not utterly miss the dainty that had been intended for him.

She also told him that in case of extreme and violent need, he could find speedy help by calling on her name; declaring that she trusted partially in her divine attributes, and that, consorting as she did in a manner with the gods, she wielded an innate and heavenly power.

Erik said that he was naturally drawn to stand by his brother, and that the bird was infamous which fouled its own nest.

But Kraka was more vexed by her own carelessness than weighed down by her son's ill-fortune: for in old time it made a craftsman bitterly ashamed to be outwitted by his own cleverness.
Then Kraka, accompanied by her husband, took away the brothers on their journey to the sea.