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 row to thee, thou wouldest of right come from far to me and comfort me; but now, alas! I see that thou desirest to forget me; woe is me, that I have lived to see this!” And embracing him with great weeping, she lamented over him, and began to entreat him to bethink himself and remain with her. Saith Brunswik with a loud voice: “Weep not, dearest lady! I alter not my word; for the words of a prince cannot go back, neither, please God, shall they go back.”

Meanwhile he sent for his father to come to her, and ordered thirty horses to be saddled. And he rode into divers lands, winning himself a good name, and at length he rode so far, that he could not ride further because of the waters. And when they came to the sea, as he rode on the shore, he bethought himself what he should do; and obtaining a ship, embarked with his men.

When he had been a quarter of a year voyaging on the sea, one night a great wind arose on the sea, and the sea becaming boisterous, the waves rose up mightily and buffeted the ship, so that sometimes it was three ells under water. Brunswik was in great danger, so that it is written of