They went straight into the courtyard. The sister came out to meet them, received her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table. But on the King she would not so much as look, but left him outside, loosed greyhounds, and set them at him. The Eagle was exceedingly wroth, jumped up from table, seized the King, and flew away with him again.
Well, they flew and flew. Presently the Eagle said to the King, “Look round; what is behind us?”
The King turned his head, looked, and said, “Behind us is a red house.”
“That is the house of my youngest sister—on fire, because she did not receive you, but set greyhounds at you.”
They flew and flew. Again the Eagle asked:
“Look again, my lord King; what is above us, and what below us?”
“Above us is the sky, below us the earth.”
“Look and see what is on the right hand and on the left.”
“On the right is the open plain, on the left there stands a house.”
“There lives my second sister; we’ll go and pay her a visit.”