"And," she continued, "if you really must carry me off, even so my father will make it up with you. But if you do anything so wicked and unmanly as to put my mother to death, my father will never make it up with you. I have had a warning in dreams that you two will fight and slay one another. Yet I am afraid that there must be something still more terrible in store. It will be a great sorrow to me if I have to be the means of exposing my father to the ruinous effects of magic spells; nor shall I have any joy in seeing you in difficulties and toils." Hethin replied that he cared not at all for the consequences, and that he would do as he had threatened. "You cannot mend it now," said Hild, "because in this case you are not your own master." Then Hethin went down to the sea-shore, and now was the warship launched. He thrust the Queen down in front of the prow, so that she perished. Hethin stepped into the warship. And when it was quite ready, he took it into his head to land alone, leaving his men behind; and he went into the same forest where he had gone before. And when he came into the glade, there he saw Gˆndul seated on her throne. They greeted one another cordially. Hethin told her what he had done and she expressed her approval. She had with her the horn which she had carried before, and she offered him a drink from it. He took it and drank; and when he had drunk, sleep fell upon him, and he let his head sink into her lap. And when he had fallen asleep, she slipped away from under his head, saying: "Now I devote both you and Hˆgni and all your followers, and lay you under all the spells imposed by Othin." Then Hethin awoke and saw the fleeting shadow of Gˆndul, but she appeared to him now to be big and black; and he recalled everything and realised how much mischief he had done. He decided now to go away somewhere a long way off, where he would not each day have his wicked deeds cast in his teeth. So he went to his ship, and made haste to free her from her moorings. A fair breeze was blowing off the land, and so he sailed away with Hild. VIII. When Hˆgni returned home, he learnt that Hethin had sailed away with Hild and the warship Halfdanarnaut, leaving the dead body of the Queen in his tracks. Hˆgni was furious and bade his men start up on the spot and sail in pursuit of Hethin. This they did, and a fair breeze sprang up. Every evening they reached the harbour from which Hethin had sailed away in the morning. It happened one day that as Hˆgni was making for a harbour, Hethin's sails were sighted out at sea; so Hˆgni and his men gave chase. As a matter of fact, it is said that at this point Hethin got a head wind against him, whereas Hˆgni had the luck to have a fair wind as before. Hethin then lay to off an island called Hoy, and there he rode at anchor. Hˆgni quickly came alongside, and when they met, Hethin greeted him courteously.