Then they replied:
"'Twere better we never saw him than that we should give thee the magic egg!"
Then he went back to the eagle and said to him:
"They said: 'Twere better we never saw him than that we should give thee the magic egg.'"
Then the eagle answered:
"Let us fly on farther!"
They flew on and on till they came to the eagle's brother, and the archer said just the same to him as he had said to the eagle's uncle, and still he didn't get the egg. Then they flew to the eagle's father, and the eagle said to him:
"Go up to the hut, and if they ask for me, say that thou hast seen me and will bring me before their eyes."
So he went up to the hut, and they said to him: