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When they have collected enough eggs to suit their purpose generally three or four apiece they boil them hard and stain them with two different colours, either brown with coffee or red with beetroot juice, and then on Easter Day they all repair to the meadows carrying their eggs with them, and the 'eiertikken' begins.
They have, in fact, been hopelessly mixed up with other songs, and in no two provinces do we find exactly the same versions. 'Eiertikken' at Easter must also not be overlooked. For a whole week before Easter the peasant children go round from house to house begging for eggs, and carrying a wreath of green leaves stuck on a long stick.
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