bstinate One felt a great desire to harpoon one of them.

"But you must not, you cannot," said the Moon Man, and promised him
a share of the catch he had just made himself. But the Obstinate One
would not be content with this; he took harpoons from the Moon Man's
store, and harpooned a walrus. Then he held it on the line--he was a
man of very great strength, that Obstinate One--and managed to kill
it. And in the same way he also dealt with another.

After his return from the Moon Man's place, he left off being
obstinate, and never again forced his wife to work while she was
in mourning.

THE DWARFS

A man who was out in his kayak saw another kayak far off, and rowed
up to it. When he came up with it, he saw that the man in it was a
very little man, a dwarf.

"What do you want," asked the dwarf, who was very much afraid of
the man.

"I saw you from afar and rowed up," said the man.

But the dwarf was plainly troubled and afraid.

"I was hunting a little fjord seal which I cannot hit," he said.

"Let me try," said the other. And so they waited until it came up to
breathe. Hardly had it come up, when the harpoons went flying towards
it, and entered in between its shoulder-blades.

"Ai, ai--what a throw!" cried the dwarf in astonishment. And the man
took the seal and made a tow-line fast.

Then the two kayaks set off together in towards land.

"Hum--hum. Wouldn't care to ... come and visit us?" [5] said the
dwarf suddenly.

But this the man would gladly do.

"Hum--hum. I've a wife ... and a daughter ... very beautiful daughter
... hum--hum. Many men wanted her ... wouldn't have them ... can't
take her by force ... very strong. Thought of taking her to wife
myself ... hum--hum. But she is too strong for me ... own daughter."

They rowed on a while, and then the little one spoke again.

"Hum--hum. Might perhaps do for you ... you could manage her ... what?"

"Let us first see her," said the man. And now they rowed into a great
deep fjord.

When they came to the place, they landed and went up at once to the
house of the little old man. And those in the house did all they
could that the stranger might be well pleased. When they had been
sitting there a while, the old man said:

"Hum--hum ... our guest has made a catch ... he comes to us bringing
game."

Now it was easy to see that they would gladly have tasted the flesh
of that little seal. And so the guest said:

"If you care to cook tha