A "bought woman" was his mother, his Cretan father left him little so he had to obtain "possessions" by "valor" (collapse of Mycenaean palaces on Crete forced them to go raiding), "Nine times he led warriors and swift-faring ships against foreign folk". Then he and his men fitted ship and raided Egypt, and just like the Sea Peoples, they "carried off the women and children, and slew the men" but were eventually defeated by Ramses.