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Updated: May 23, 2025
Gripe is pronounced Greep-e. In Sirle, the first syllable has the same sound as sir, in sirup. The names which Miss Lagerlöf has given to the animals are descriptive. Smirre Fox, is cunning fox. Sirle Squirrel, is graceful, or nimble squirrel. Gripe Otter, means grabbing or clutching otter. Mons is a pet name applied to cats; like our tommy or pussy.
All day Thursday he thought it was surely on account of his wickedness that the wild geese did not care to take him along up to Lapland. And in the evening, when he heard that Sirle Squirrel's wife had been stolen, and her children were starving to death, he made up his mind to help them. And we have already been told how well he succeeded.
"And who is so honoured in Övid Cloister park now, as Thumbietot!" sang the bullfinch; "he, whom all feared when he was Nils the goose boy? Sirle Squirrel will give him nuts; the poor hares are going to play with him; the small wild animals will carry him on their backs, and fly away with him when Smirre Fox approaches.
When the boy came into the park on Friday, he heard the bulfinches sing in every bush, of how Sirle Squirrel's wife had been carried away from her children by cruel robbers, and how Nils, the goose boy, had risked his life among human beings, and taken the little squirrel children to her.
If he made friends with them, they could warn him against dangers, find hiding places for him, and protect him. But later in the day, when the boy tried to profit by this counsel, and turned to Sirle Squirrel to ask for his protection, it was evident that he did not care to help him. "You surely can't expect anything from me, or the rest of the small animals!" said Sirle.
The wedge was perfect, the speed good, and the wing strokes strong and certain. The boy felt such a yearning for his departing comrades that he almost wished he were Thumbietot again and could travel over land and sea with a flock of wild geese. The final e is sounded in Skåne, Sirle, Gripe, etc. The å in Skåne and Småland is pronounced like o in ore. j is like the English y.
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