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Updated: May 1, 2025
Regardless of all danger, be it far or near, the Norwegian still claimed the van, and dipped his hand with frequency in the little bag of salt that dangled at his girdle, chanting as he went, "Salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o!" The deer came not; though the lonely hills took up the words, and passed them from vale to vale.
No sooner did the guide perceive the animal, than he tugged the salt-bag from his belt, and, holding it in his left hand, extended it at arm's length before him, creeping down the hillock on which we had clustered, exclaiming, "Kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit."
"Kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o!" the Norwegian continued half singing, and half importuning the deer to come to him.
The Norwegian turned his head and smiled with us, but would not yet despair of success. "Kommit," still, with onward step, he said, "kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt! kommit, kommit."
And we drink a “Lebe hoch!” to Gottlob far away; and to Gottlob’s mother, and to Gottlob’s father, chinking our glasses merrily every time, and draining them after each draught on our thumb nails, to show how faithfully we have honoured the toasts. We shout “Vivat h-o-o-o;” till the old German oven quakes again.
The Norwegian examined these marks with much minuteness; and when he had satisfied himself that they were the hoof-prints of the rein-deer, and not of the smaller cows of the country, he thrust his hand into the salt-bag that was still suspended from his left side, like a good-sized rook's nest, and vociferated, "Salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! salt! salt!"
The guide kept his place in front and led the way, bounding from valley to mountain-top like a spirit of Indian rubber; and unwearied in his tongue as he seemed in body, he continued shouting, cheerily, in a strange, drawling chant, "Salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o!" "Salt" in the Norwegian language signifies salt, as it does in ours; but the vowel has a soft pronunciation.
The Norwegian had volunteered the promise, that if the deer turned out to be his own, and he could lay hands on her, we should accept her as a gift. "Kommit," said the Norwegian, in tones of gentler blandness; "salt! salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit."
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