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Updated: October 17, 2025
What should we do with a goose? I don't know how to cook it; and as for my pillow, I can stuff it with cotton-grass. Run out, child, and put up the cock. 'But, after all, I haven't got the cock', said Gudbrand; 'for when I had gone a bit farther, I got as hungry as a hunter, so I was forced to sell the cock for a shilling, for fear I should starve.
I have stall and litter for her, and the road home is no longer than the road here." So he began to go homewards again. When he had gone a little distance he met a man who had a horse he wanted to sell. So Gudbrand thought it was better to have a horse than a cow, and exchanged with him.
So one day his wife said to Gudbrand, "Do you know, dear, I think we ought to take one of our cows into town and sell it; that's what I think; for then we shall have some money in hand, and such well-to-do people as we ought to have ready money as other folks have.
I've both stable and tether for her, I should think, and the road is no farther out than in'; and with that he began to toddle home with his cow. But when he had gone a bit of the way, a man met him who had a horse to sell, so Gudbrand thought 'twas better to have a horse than a cow, so he swopped with the man.
The neighbour was willing, so the bet was made. They waited till evening, and then set out for Gudbrand's house. The neighbour stood outside the door, while Gudbrand went inside to his wife. "Good evening," said Gudbrand, when he was inside. "Good evening," said his wife. "Heaven be praised. Is it you?" Yes, it was he. His wife then asked him how things went at the town.
After this Gudbrand said to his son: 'Thou shalt go to the King who spared thy life, and twelve men shall go with thee. And so it was done. And they came to the King and told him their errand that the country-folk would fain hold a conference with him, and would have a truce between them.
Now when Gudbrand heard that King Olaf was come to Loa and was compelling men to receive Christianity, he cut the war-arrow and summoned all the dalesmen to meet him at the village called Houndthorpe. Thither came they all in countless numbers, for the lake Lögr lies near, and they could come by water as well as by land.
"Oh, but so-so," said Gudbrand, "not much to boast of. When I came to the town I could find no one to buy the cow, so I exchanged it for a horse." "Thanks for that!" said the wife; "we are such fine folk that we can ride to church the same as other people, and as we can keep a horse we might as well have one. Go and put the horse up, children." "But," said Gudbrand, "I have not got the horse.
He and his wife lived so happily together, and were so well matched, that do what the man would his wife was well pleased, thinking nothing in the world could be better. Whatever he did she was satisfied. The farm was their own, and they had a hundred dollars which lay in a box, and in the stall they had two cows. One day the woman said to Gudbrand.
"But I have not got the goat," said Gudbrand. "I went on a bit, and exchanged it for a fine sheep." "Well," said the wife, "you have done just what I should have wished just as if I had done it myself. What did we want a goat for? I should have had to go over hill and dale after it. Now we have a sheep I shall have wool and clothes in the house, and food as well.
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