Then a little cough was heard at the door , and Kabo trembled , for he knew it was the cough of Pivi ! ` Ah , dear Pivi ! ' cried Kabo , rushing to the door . ` What joy ! I was trying to console your dear wives . ' Pivi said not one word . He waved his hand , and five and twenty of his friends came trooping down the hill . They cut up Kabo into little pieces . Pivi turned round , and there was the good woman of the river . ` Pivi , ' she said , ` how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you ? ' ' I had my spear with me , ' said Pivi . ` It was quite dry inside the shell , and I worked away at the fish with my spear , till he saw reason to open his shell , and out I came . ' Then the good woman laughed ; and Pivi and his two wives lived happy ever afterwards . -LSB- Moncelon . Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie . Series iii . vol . ix. , pp. 613-365 . -RSB- The Elf Maiden Once upon a time two young men living in a small village fell in love with the same girl . During the winter , it was all night except for an hour or so about noon , when the darkness seemed a little less dark , and then they used to see which of them could tempt her out for a sleigh ride with the Northern Lights flashing above them , or which could persuade her to come to a dance in some neighbouring barn .
But when the spring began , and the light grew longer , the hearts of the villagers leapt at the sight of the sun , and a day was fixed XXXXX the boats to be brought out , and the great nets to be spread in the bays of some islands that lay a few miles to the north .
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