then after a time some questioned him concerning mavwin and urin and after happenings , and he said : 'now of mavwin hath no sure record been preserved like unto the tale of turin turambar her son , and many things are said and some of them differ from one another ; but this much can i tell to ye , that after those dread deeds the woodfolk had no heart for their abiding place and departed to other valleys of the wood , and yet did a few linger sadly nigh their old homes ; and once came an aged dame wandering through the woods , and she chanced upon that carven rock .