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Updated: May 23, 2025
At this several persons laughed; but Ljung Björn was ready with a sharp rejoinder: "I see no reason why Krister and I shouldn't be as well qualified to preach as the schoolmaster," he said. Thereupon Tims Halvor arose and tried to quiet them and to prevent possible strife.
She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ever been there since she had come, and entreated him to go away again, or else the Troll would swallow him up alive. The Troll had nine heads, she told him. 'Yes, and if he had nine added to the nine, and then nine more still, I would not go away, said Halvor, and went and stood by the stove.
So when, as was the usage and custom, all were to drink to the bride and the young girls who were present, the cup-bearer filled the cup for each in turn, both bride and bridegroom, and knights and servants, and at last, after a very long time, he came to Halvor.
It is not far off, you can see the chimney-pots from here, and there they have plenty of everything. Halvor would not hear of that, he was absolutely determined to stay where he was; but the old folks stuck to what they had said, and told him that he was to go to the farm, where he could get both meat and drink, whereas they themselves had not even a chair to offer him.
Then Halvor said in a voice vibrant with feeling: "Karin, when I received your father's watch, I felt that nothing greater could have happened to me; but this thing which you have just done transcends everything." Whereupon Berger Sven Persson, who was in many ways an excellent man, arose.
Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, 'Who is most worthy to have one of us he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom? There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and when Halvor heard what they said he was not long in flinging off his beggar's rags and arraying himself as a bridegroom.
"I know, Halvor, that it doesn't seem reasonable to you that a poor, uneducated blacksmith should have found the truth, when so many learned men have failed," said the voice. "I don't see how you can be so sure of that," Halvor questioned. "It's Hellgum talking to Halvor," thought Karin, trying to close the window, which she was unable to reach.
"It's rather hard to believe something different from what one was taught as a child," said Halvor thoughtfully. "Nevertheless, I feel certain, Halvor, that very soon you will give your full support to the upbuilding of the New Jerusalem," Hellgum declared. Then came a moment of silence, after which Karin heard Hellgum say good-bye. Presently Halvor went into the house.
"I'd just like to know," said Ingmar. Then the old man began unfolding a big plan he had in mind: Ingmar was to persuade Tims Halvor to put up a sawmill below the rapids, and afterward lease it to him. For many years the old man's dream had been to find a way by which Big Ingmar's son might come into his own again. Ingmar stood quietly looking down at the foaming rapids.
Ever since he had been a little boy he had been unwilling to do any work, and had just sat raking about among the ashes. His parents sent him away to learn several things, but Halvor stayed nowhere, for when he had been gone two or three days he always ran away from his master, hurried off home, and sat down in the chimney corner to grub among the ashes again.
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