since the ship was intended as a funeral ship, the crew begins to get superstitious and demands to return home. rolfe asks the ship's captain what's the way to sway the bad luck off them, and he states that a maiden must be sacrificed to the gods. he pretends to do so (he stabs himself in the foot to draw blood) and later reveals the trick to the crew. after prolonged difficulties at sea, the ship is damaged in a maelstrom, and the norse are cast ashore in a moorish shore. after getting attacked and captured by the moors, the norse are condemned to execution, where mansuh reencounters rolfe and again demands to know where the mother of voices is. mansuh's favourite wife aminah (rosanna schiaffino) convinces her husband to use them and their longship to retrieve the bell. after they sail to the pillars of hercules, rolfe and mansuh find only a domed chapel with a small bronze bell where the viking was certain he had heard the mother of voices. frustrated, rolfe throws the hanging bell against a wall, and the resounding cacophony reveals that the chapel dome itself is the disguised mother of voices.