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Updated: May 23, 2025
They were as grey-headed as a pair of doves, and the old wife had such a nose! why, it was so long she used it for a poker to stir the fire as she sat in the ingle. 'Good evening', said Halvor. 'Good evening', said the old wife. 'But what errand can you have in coming hither? she went on, 'for no Christian folk have been here these hundred years and more.
Anyway, he did Karin a good service by relieving her of that dreadful sot." And since the magistrate seemed to think that he had as good as won the game, he felt rather friendly toward Halvor. Raising his cup, he said: "Here's to you, Halvor! You certainly did Karin a good turn when you took her drunken sot of a husband off her hands." Halvor did not respond to the toast.
When they came in again they were so shamefaced that they hardly dared to look at Halvor, towards whom they had always been so proud and haughty before. 'Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you, said Halvor, 'but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free.
'THOU MOON, THOU MOON', she screamed, 'canst thou tell me the way to SORIA MORIA CASTLE? 'No', said the Moon, 'that I can't, for the last time I shone there a cloud stood before me. 'Wait a bit still', said the old wife to Halvor, 'by and bye comes the West Wind; he's sure to know it, for he puffs and blows round every corner.
Karin made no reply, but sat there, frigid and unresponsive, her eyes fixed on the ground and her hands crossed, prepared to meet all the scorn she fancied Halvor would now heap upon her. "I said to him," Halvor continued, "that I considered myself largely to blame for his misfortune, since it was at my place that he got hurt."
They put him in the right way, and when he came in front of the castle it was so full of horses and people that it swarmed with them. But Halvor was so ragged and torn with following the West Wind through bushes and bogs that he kept on one side, and would not go among the crowd until the last day, when the feast was to be held at noon.
The next they saw was Halvor reaching out for the watch, almost as if against his will. But the moment he had got it into his hand, he put it in the inside pocket of his vest. "There's no fear of any one taking that watch from him," said the schoolmaster with a laugh, as he saw Halvor carefully buttoning his coat. And Halvor laughed, too.
'Aye, aye', said Halvor, 'if he had nine other heads, and nine other heads still, I won't go away', and so he stood fast before the stove. The Princess kept on begging him so prettily to go away, lest the Troll should gobble him up, but Halvor said: 'Let him come as soon as he likes.
When Halvor had eaten his fill, the Princess told him to try if he could brandish the sword that hung against the wall; no, he couldn't brandish it, he couldn't even lift it up. 'Oh! said the Princess, 'now you must go and take a pull of that flask that hangs by its side; that's what the Troll does every time he goes out to use the sword.
"I can't believe there are any flaws in the teachings of Jesus," said Halvor. "No, they were unquestionably sound from the start; but it may be that they have become a little rusty, as it were, from neglect. In any perfect mechanism, if a cog happens to slip only one tiny little cog instantly the whole machinery stops!" He paused a moment as if searching for words and proofs.
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