Then he began to sing to her.

“Come to me,
Come into the land of the birds
Where there is never hunger,
Where my tent is made of beautiful skins.
You will have a necklace of ivory
And sleep in the skins of bears.
Your lamps will be always filled with oil
And your pot with meat.”

The song was so beautiful that Sedna could not refuse. She packed her belongings in a sealskin bag; she stepped out of the tent and she walked down across the beach and got into the stranger ‘s kayak. They sailed out over the sea, away from Sedna ‘s home and her father and her brothers.

The Petrel made a home for Sedna on the rocky cliff Every day he caught fish for her, telling her that they were young seals, and for a while Sedna was happy, because the Petrel had enchanted her. But one day the Petrel ‘s spectacles fell off and for the first time Sedna looked into her husband’s eyes. In that moment the spell was broken. She realized all at once that she was married to a bird, and she saw that her home was a nest on a barren cliff For the first time she felt the sting of the sea spray and the lashing winds.

Sedna wept with grief and despair, and the Petrel, although he loved her, could not console her.

In the meantime, Sedna's father and brothers had grown more and more lonely with no woman to cook their meat and sew their clothing and keep the oil burning in their lamps. They set out in their boat in the direction that the stranger had taken Sedna.

When they came to the cliff where Sedna lived, the Petrel was away hunting, and Sedna was alone. When she saw her family, she went running down to them, weeping, and in a rush told them all that had happened to her. Her brothers immediately lifted her into the boat and they began paddling as rapidly as possible back toward their own coast