in a little while came a great bird flying with an island in its claws, and let it fall down on the fleet, and sunk every ship. after it had done that, it flew up to the sandhill and flapped its wings, so that the wind nearly took off the heads of the sailors, and it flew past the fir with such force that it turned the lad right about, but he was ready with his sword, and gave the bird one blow and brought it down dead.