arssik was taken to live in a house with many brothers,
and they were very fond of him.

When the wizard was about to call upon his spirits, it was his custom
to call in through the window: "Only the married men may come and
hear." And when they who were to hear the spirit calling went out,
a little widow and her daughter and Isigaligarssik always stayed
behind together in the house. Once, when all had gone out to hear
the wizard, as was their custom, these three were thus left alone
together. Isigaligarssik sat by the little lamp on the side bench,
at work.

Suddenly he heard the widow's daughter saying something in her mother's
ear, and then her mother turned towards him and said:

"This little girl would like to have you."

Isigaligarssik would also like to have her, and before the others of
the house had come back, they were man and wife. Thus when the others
of the house had finished and came back, Isigaligarssik had found a
wife, and his house-fellows were very glad of this.

Next day, as soon as it was dark, one called, as was the custom: "Let
only those who have wives come and hear." And Isigaligarssik, who had
before had no wife, felt now a great desire to go and hear this. But as
soon as he had come in, the great wizard said to Isigaligarssik's wife:

"Come here; here."

When she had sat down, he told her to take off her shoes, and then
he put them up on the drying frame. Then they made a spirit calling,
and when that was ended, the wizard said to Isigaligarssik:

"Go away now; you will never have this dear little wife of yours
again."

And then Isigaligarssik had to go home without a wife. And
Isigaligarssik had to live without a wife. And every time there was
a spirit calling, and he went in, the wizard would say:

"Ho, what are you doing here, you who have no wife?"

But now anger grew up slowly in him at this, and once when he came
home, he said:

"That wizard in there has mocked me well, but next time he asks me,
I shall know what to answer."

But the others of the village warned him, and said:

"No, no; you must not answer him. For if you answer him, then he will
kill you."

But one evening when the bad wizard mocked him as usual Isigaligarssik
said:

"Ho, and what of you who took my wife away?"

Now the wizard stood up at once, and when Isigaligarssik bent down
towards the entrance to creep out, the wizard took a knife, and
stabbed him with a great wound.

Isigaligarssik ran qui