Northern mythology

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he worked only during the night—when the builder called
to him from a distance :
God Maaen, Zi
Zi
God Maaen, Good morning, Zi ! Good
ing, Zi
morn-
Ssetter du nu den sidste Are you now placing the last
Steen i ? stone ?
When the goblin heard himself addressed by name he was
furious_, and hurling away the stone that he was in the
act of placing, retired within his cave. The hole which
was thus left could never be filled up. In the night
everything was cast out. A mason, that once endeavoured
to build it up, was attacked by a wasting malady. At a
later period, a window was placed there, which the goblin
suffered to remain ^.
The church at Munkbrarup, in Angeln, was built in like manner. The
miserable builder hears a child crying under the earth, and the mother
saying to it :
" Hush, thou little creature ! This evening thy father Sipp
will come, and give thee Christian blood to drink."
FATHER FINN.
In very old times the dwarfs had long wars with men,
and also with one another.
When they were absent in the
wars, their wives at home sang by the cradle a particular
kind of song. North of Braderup, on the heath, there is
a giant-mount, from which was once heard the following :
Heia, hei, dit Jungen es min.
Mearen kumt din Vaader Finn
Me di Man sin Hand.
Heigh ho, the child is mine.
To-morrow comes thy father Finn
With a man's head.
THE HOUSE WITH NINETY-NINE WINDOWS.
The house of a peasant in Eiderstedt was burnt to the
ground. The man sorely afflicted was walking about his
field, when he was accosted by a little man in a grey coat
and with a horse^s foot, who inquired the cause of his
1 See vol. h. pp. 39, 101, 248.