Frode replied: "I ask thee whither thou next didst bend thy course, or where the evening found thee?" Then said Erik: "Leaving a crag, I came to a rock, and likewise lay by a stone." Frode said: "The boulders lay thick in those parts." Erik answered: "Yet thicker lies the sand, plain to see." Frode said: "Tell what thy business was, and whither thou struckest off thence." Then said Erik: "Leaving the rock, as my ship ran on, I found a dolphin." Frode said: "Now thou hast said something fresh, though both these things are common in the sea: but I would know what path took thee after that?" Erik answered: "After a dolphin I went to a dolphin." Frode said: "The herd of dolphins is somewhat common." Then said Erik: "It does swim somewhat commonly on the waters." Frode said: "I would fain blow whither thou wert borne on thy toilsome journey after leaving the dolphins?" Erik answered: "I soon came upon the trunk of a tree." Frode rejoined: "Whither didst thou next pass on thy journey?" Then said Erik: "From a trunk I passed on to a log." Frode said: "That spot must be thick with trees, since thou art always calling the abodes of thy hosts by the name of trunks." Erik replied: "There is a thicker place in the woods." Frode went on: "Relate whither thou next didst bear thy steps." Erik answered: "Oft again I made my way to the lopped timbers of the woods; but, as I rested there, wolves that were sated on human carcases licked the points of the spears. There a lance-head was shaken from the shaft of the king, and it was the grandson of Fridleif." Frode said: "I am bewildered, and know not what to think about the dispute: for thou hast beguiled my mind with very dark riddling." Erik answered: "Thou owest me the prize for this contest that is finished: for under a veil I have declared to thee certain things thou hast ill understood. For under the name I gave before of `spear-point' I signified Odd, whom my hand had slain." And when the queen also had awarded him the palm of eloquence and the prize for flow of speech, the king straightway took a bracelet from his arm, and gave it to him as the appointed reward, adding: "I would fain learn from thyself thy debate with Grep, wherein he was not ashamed openly to avow himself vanquished." Then said Erik: "He was smitten with shame for the adultery wherewith he was taxed; for since he could bring no defence, he confessed that he had committed it with thy wife."