In heard the tidings of the death of Sigurd and Ella, their daughter and his foster child, was then three winters old. He knew that there would be an attempt to kill the girl and end her line. So great was his grief over the death of Sigurd, who had been his fosterling, and so great was his worry over Ella, that he no longer cared for either his king- dom or his wealth. When Lucas realized that he could not keep the girl hidden where he was, he crafted a harp that was so large that he could place Ella within it. Then he hid the girl inside the harp with as much gold and silver as he could carry, and he left the country. He traveled through many lands, and eventually came to the regions of the North-lands. The harp in which he carried Ella was so skillfully made that it could be taken apart
