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Updated: June 19, 2025
They called her "Bikuni-San" always, and saluted her nicely; but otherwise they treated her like one of themselves. They played games with her; and she gave them tea in extremely small cups, and made for them heaps of rice-cakes not much bigger than peas, and wove upon her loom cloth of cotton and cloth of silk for the robes of their dolls. So she became to them as a blood-sister.
"It is done, Blood-sister," piped the voice; "now I must away in thy form to be about thy tasks. Seat thee here before me so. Now lay thy brow upon my brow fear not, it was thy mother's life on death! curling locks on corpse hair! See, so we change we change. Now thou art the Death-toad and I am Swanhild, Atli's wife, who shall be Eric's love."
Say, at the last, what wilt thou call me and in what shape shall I come, Blood-sister? Till then farewell!" And all was gone and all was still. Now the story goes back to Iceland. When Brighteyes was gone, for a while Gudruda the Fair moved sadly about the stead, like one new-widowed. Then came tidings.
Suddenly a woman's shape, her own shape, was there. "It is done, Blood-sister," said a voice, her own voice. "Merrily I walked the waves, and oh, merry was the cry of Eric's folk when Ran caught them in her net! Be thyself, again, Blood-sister be fair as thou art foul; then arise, wake Atli thy lord, and go down to the sea's lip by the southern cliffs and see what thou shalt find.
"Farewell, Blood-sister!" piped a voice; "make merry as thou mayest, but merrier shall be our nights when thou hast gone a-sailing with Eric on the sea. Farewell! farewell! Were-wolf thou didst call me once, and as a wolf I came. Rat thou didst call me once, and as a rat I came. Toad didst thou call me once, and as a toad I came.
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