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Updated: June 9, 2025
Solem watches all this from the field where he is working, and begins to sing a ribald song. Certainly these two have so ill-used him that if he is going to sing improper songs in self-defense, this is the time to do it; no one will gainsay that. So he sang his song very loud, and then began to yodel.
I'd have liked you to come with me this winter, though I've got a small spare room." "Why should I go there?" Still it wasn't a bad idea. "It would be nice if you could," said the carpenter. Just then I heard the name of Solem mentioned in the hall. Yes, there he was, swaggering as usual, the self-same Solem from Tore Peak.
Ah, Solem, Solem how the ladies loved him! But the Grecian rose from the dust as from a bath. The sand from the floor clung to her black dress, making it look as though spangled with stardust. Submissively she accepted the lot of lying under all the others, entwined in their legs, and smiled when someone pointed out to her that the comb in her Grecian knot was crushed.
Molie went with him. "Did you really say nothing to Solem about climbing the peak today?" I asked the Dane. "No," he replied. "I never said a word about it. If I had meant to go, I should certainly not have wanted company...." Later that afternoon we returned with the lawyer on the stretcher.
He must, in his disregard of time, have thought the guests had already retired, but we all sat outside in the mild darkness. When Paul saw us, he drew himself up and saluted as he passed; then, calling Solem to him, he said: "You mustn't cross the field again without letting me know. I was right there in my room, writing. The idea of Josephine carrying luggage!" Paul strode on.
I soon noticed a man who was dancing with great assiduity, never stopping once tall, swarthy, lively a heartbreaker. The ladies clustered round him. "Can that be Solem down there dominating the crowd?" I thought. "Wouldn't you like to dance?" I asked Carpenter Nikolai. "Oh, no," he replied with a smile. "Then we can leave any time you like." "All right," he said and remained seated.
The grand council of the league publicly set their faces against the crime, and bloody laws were enacted against all "solem conversing or compacting with the devil by the way of conjuracion or the like."
I passed the hut where Solem and I had lived together, and then the Lapps the two old people and Olga, this strange cross between a human being and a dwarf birch. A stove stood against the peat wall, and a paraffin lamp hung from the roof of their stone-age dwelling.
Paul's wife and Josephine came out of the house and sent Solem across to Einar, the first cotter, to ask if he would come and help them carry. In the meantime the travelers grew impatient and kept looking at their watches, for if they could not cross the Tore fjeld before nightfall, they would have to spend the night outdoors.
It was after he had received his second "No" from the gentleman that he began to talk, to tell everyone that he was "Solem, my lad." But his boasts were dull: Something was going to happen; he would show them an image of sin! There was no sting in it; just old, familiar rubbish these people had heard before.
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