They go on again, and the mare says again—
“Look back again, if you see anything.”
Fidel says to her, “Yes, I see again this terrible thing; it is coming after us quickly, and is going to catch us.”
The mare at the same time says again to the earth, in striking it with her foot,
“Let it hail stones, and hail there where he is as much as can possibly fall.”
They go on. The mare says again,
“Look back, if you see anything.”
He says to her again, “He is here, this terrible monster. It is all up with us now—we cannot escape him; he is quite near, and he comes with speed.”
The mare strikes the earth with her foot, and says to it—
“Form before him a river, and let him drown himself there for evermore.”