Jätte-Stugan, Whose Roof Consisted Only Of Sausages

Once upon a time there was a poor squatter, and many are, who lived deep into the forest. He had two children, a boy and a girl. One day said the crofter, that they would go out and chop fir-rice. The children obeyed; the boy took an axe, the sister followed him, and then they went to the forest to chop rice, as their father had commanded. But how they traveled and back, they finally could not find their way home. Dinner came, qnight came, and the longer it dragged on, the more the poor children sank himself in the wasteland. Then the girl became anxious, and sat down on a flame (fallen tree), and wept bitterly; but the boy was in good spirits, and comforted his sister as best he could. "Don't cry," he said, "I do." wants to build us a hut; tomorrow, when it's dawn, we'll probably find home again." Said and done; he took to his axe, and built a little hut of fir-rice; the girl now dried her tears, and so they remained in the forest overnight.
The following morning the crofter children began their journey again; but could equally little find the way like the day before. When they have now wandered both long and well, the girl became tired, and sat down and wept bitterly. "Do not Cry," comforted the brother, "the day is long, and we'll get home well before the sun sets." forest." The girl said: »I can't go any further, I'm so hungry, so hungry." But the boy kept his spirits up and said he would find a remedy for that sorrow. He now asked his sister to stay where, while he went away to get them some food.
When the boy had wandered for a while, he came to a little roe; in the middle of the rödjan was a cabin, the roof of which consisted only of sausages. Then he was happy in his mind and crept closer and closer, to see if he could reach it nice food. Nothing was heard, and the boy finally dared to crawl up on the roof of the cottage. As he now looked down through the smoke-hole, he became be an old giant, who lived in there at the same time with his wife. Then wanted the boy went away; but the traveler noticed the noise and shouted loudly say: "Who is that rustling on my roof?" The boy answered, softly voice: 'just a little, little bird.' »Yes,» growled the giant, »then you can do no harm.” The boy now took a bunch of sausages and ran quickly away to his sister, who meanwhile with great anxiety and fear denied his return.
It went on like this for a few days, without the two siblings noticing any deficiency, although they could not find a way out of the wilderness. When the food supply was everything, the boy must again set out to get more. He snuck away before that to the giant's cabin, whose roof consisted only of sausages, and slowly crept up onto the roof. But the giant heard a noise, and called harshly say: "Who is it that is rustling on my roof?" The boy answered softly voice: 'just a little, little bird.' "Well," grumbled the giant, "then you can." do no harm.” The boy then took a bundle of sausages, as before the passage, and ran hastily to her sister, who was anxiously asking how his journey was over.
After some time the boy would go away again to get food himself and his sister. This time the girl wanted to come along, to see how he carried himself. The boy refused her request for a long time, and thought it would be better if he went alone. But the sister was insistent, and, As it usually happens in such cases, she finally prevailed. When they now came to the giant's cabin, the girl was frightened and began to cry. "Oh! shut up,» comforted the brother, "you'll see it's not that dangerous." He crawled then up on the roof and threw sausages to his sister, who was standing below. -- When the giant heard noise, he hummed as before: "Who is it?" that rustling on my roof?” The boy answered in a shrill voice: 'just one little, little bird.' But now the girl could not hold back her laughter, but laughed loudly: "Hi, hi, hi." Then the boy became afraid and wanted to hurry away; but slipped in the same, broke a hole in the roof, and steamed headlong through the opening. When the girl noticed this misfortune, she was greatly dismayed, and quickly fled back into the forest.
"Well, now I see what a little bird you are," said the giant to the boy fell through the cottage roof. He then spoke to his wife and said: "Mother! take the arrow and fatten him well, that we may have a good roast either day.” The giantess did as her husband had said, seized the boy and locked him in a cabin. Here he got nuts and sweet milk, as much as he liked to eat, and soon became stronger and more luxuriant than he had previously been.
Some time passed, and the giant wanted to know if the boy was still there sufficiently fertilized. He therefore went to the path and called out that the boy would hold out his finger. But this one sensed inadvisability, and reached instead forward a tree-stick. The giant took it, and thought that the boy still had to be very thin, after he felt so hard in the hole. Tusse went now to his wife and said that the boy would get twice as many kernels and sweet milk than added; as also happened.
A few days later, the trip went back to the trail, to ask about the boy was still fat enough. He held out a tree-stick, as last time. Tussen wondered aloud that the boy had such small holes, and was very displeased with his wife. But the giantess excused herself and thought that it was not worth the effort to further fatten the boy, because he never got fat though. The giant said: "If it is as you say, I already want to go away today and invite our relatives to a feast. You can meanwhile fire the oven and prepare the roast.» This seemed to the lady be good advice, and she promised to do as her husband had said. Then the giant saddled his walker, and rode on his journey.
When the tussle had gone away, the maiden lit a great fire and made oven very hot. She then fetched the boy from the path, and let him sit on the bread shovel, to be pushed into the oven. But the boy noticed that it concerned his life, and therefore fell down every time the lady caught hold of the grissel shaft. The giantess was enraged at one such ineptitude; but the boy apologized, which he did not rightly knew how to sit. "Mother!" he said, "put yourselves on." the bread-shovel, I should be able to learn." The woman did as he asked, and sat down on the piglet with a bent back. Immediately the boy was ready, took hold of the grizzly handle, and pushed the old lady into the red-hot oven. This became the bane of the giantess.
When the giant woman was dead, the boy hurriedly gathered what food he had could find in the house, and then went to see his sister. He found her in the little rice-hut, and you can imagine what a joy it was became, when they met, who never thought they would see each other again. But the girl had in the meantime lived on the sausages which the boy thrown from the roof, the time he got stuck with the giant. Now thought she, that her brother had been eaten long ago, and she herself was whole for a long time only cried because of him.
While all this was going on, the giant returned from his journey, and wondered that his wife did not go to meet him, as was her custom. "But", he thought to himself, "she must have so much to manage with the guests, that she cannot get away.» The giant now dismounted and entered; but the lady was nowhere to be seen. "Perhaps," said the traveler, "she has gone." to forest; meanwhile I want to look at the roast.» At what he now opened the oven-door, look, then his own wife sat fried and burnt in the oven; but the ill-tempered boy had run away from his home. When the giant saw this and understood how everything had turned out, he was so angry that his heart burst and he fell dead by the hearth.
A few days later, the crofter children's food supply was exhausted. Then said the boy to himself, that he should go and see how it is stood by the giant. That time, however, the girl was not allowed to come along. When the boy now came to the giant's cabin, he crept quite slowly up onto the roof, and peered down through the smoke trap. But who can believe how happy he became, when he saw the giant lying dead on the stove. The boy now ran to his sister and told her these papers. Then the crofter children went back, and took away all the silver and other goods that the giants owned. But on the other side of the giant's cabin they found a path that led through the forest. This they followed and thus happily returned to their father. Since I wasn't there anymore.