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A mountain between Sweden and Norway. I.e., the boat he would be building. Meaning that he would never have a chance of building the new sort of boat that his mind was bent on. The Finn's hut. Tvinde Knuder. When the Finn tied one magic knot, he raised a gale, so two knots would give a tempest. I.e., where the Gan-Finn let out the wind. An eight-oared boat. A place where sea-birds' eggs abound.
If Jack were to complete it, said she, the Gan-Finn would no longer have any sale for his fair-winds in all Nordland. And then she warned him to look to himself and never get between the Finn and the Gan-flies. Then Jack felt that his boat might be the undoing of him. But the worse things looked, the more he tried to make the best of them.
There the magicians were all sitting together in the dark sea-fog beneath the shelter of the high mountain, and whispering about all manner of secret and hidden things, and blowing spirits into the novices of the black art. But the Gan-flies, humming and buzzing, went round and round the empty furs of the Gan-Finn like a yellow ring and kept watch.
Then he set his face rigidly against it, so that the magic spells should not get at him; and thus they struggled with one another till the Gan-Finn grew green in the face, and was very near choking. After that the sorcerers of Jokmok sent magic shots after Jack, and clouded his wits.
The sun burned, and far away inland the snowy plains blazed in its light. He recognised very well the headland and shore where he was now able to lay to. The smoke came from the Gamme up on the snow-hill there. In the doorway sat the Gan-Finn. He was lifting his pointed cap up and down, up and down, by means of a thread of sinew, which went right through him, so that his skin creaked.
At last, however, she saw it was no use he had made up his mind to be off. Then she kissed his hands and wept bitterly. At least he must promise to wait till the Gan-Finn had gone right away to Jokmok in Sweden. On the day of his departure, the Finn went all round his hut with a torch and took stock.
Then Jack understood that she was going to take counsel of the Gan-Finn, and that he had better take refuge in his boat before the way was closed to him. And, in fact, the boat had come so close up to the boulders, that he had only to step down upon the thwarts.
Then the Gan-Finn sent double knots after them. They sped along in a wild dance right over the firth, and the sea whirled up in white columns of foam, reaching to the very clouds. Unless the boat could fly as quick and quicker than a bird, it was lost. Then a hideous laugh was heard to larboard
Then the Gan-Finn laughed till he nearly split. He thought the reindeer would cost the purchaser a pretty penny. But Jack lifted Seimke up, and sprang down with her to his boat, and held the reindeer-skin behind him, against the Gan-Finn. And they put off from land, and went to sea. Seimke was so happy, and smote her hands together, and took her turn at the oars.
She fell upon his neck, and wouldn't let go, and raved and shrieked. She promised him her snow-shoes, which would carry him through everything, and said she would steal for him the bone-stick from the Gan-Finn, so that he might find all the old lucky dollars that ever were buried, and would teach him how to make salmon-catching knots in the fishing lines, and how to entice the reindeer from afar.
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