The Sailor

An old saying in this country says: »The sailor laughed.« The The origin of this, so the story goes, is that a farmer once Sea dwarf, who called himself Seaman, and a big head and had long hands, but from the loins down he resembled a seal. He did not want to tell the farmer anything, and so the farmer brought him against his will to the land.

The farmer's wife, who was young and high-spirited, came down to the sea and welcomed him with joy, kissed and caressed him. He was delighted He was very pleased and praised her very much, but he beat his dog when he also wanted to show his joy about his return home. This was seen by the Little sailor, and it laughed. The farmer asked what it was laughing about. "At your stupidity," it replied.

As the farmer was walking home from the sea, he stumbled upon a He cursed the hump a hundred times because it had been created and had just gotten his place on his field Then the sailor, who was reluctant to be carried, laughed and said: “The farmer is an idiot!”

The farmer kept the sailor with him for three days. A few Merchants came to him to sell their goods. Never the farmer had received such thick-soled and solid greased leather boots as he wanted them to be, but these merchants believed that they had the best. The farmer could choose between hundreds of pairs of boots, but found that they were all too thin to hold Then the sailor laughed and said: »Some people are mistaken, even if he thinks he's smart."

Neither in good nor in evil did the sailor want more wisdom from give themselves as has already been told; but under the condition, that it would be brought back to the same place in the sea where it had been fished out, it said, it wanted to get on the rudder of the Pawns and answer all his questions, but otherwise it would remain silent.

After three days, the farmer did as the sailor wanted, and when it was sitting on the oar, the farmer asked it, what the fishermen had to do to have a good catch. The sailor replied: »Fish hooks must be made from chewed and kneaded iron be forged, and the forge must be located where the roar from river and sea; the fishing hook must be in the foam of a The horse must be hardened, and the fishing line must be made of grey bull hide and A rope made of raw horse skin must be used. The heart must be used as bait of a bird and flounder meat, in the middle of the hook but must be put into human flesh. If you do not catch fish you only have a short life. But the hook of the Fischer's must be bent outwards."

The farmer then asked what stupidity he had laughed at back then, when he praised his wife but hit the dog. The sailor replied: »About your stupidity, farmer! Because your dog loves you more than his own life! But your wife wishes you death and Is the most dissatisfied woman. your money hill, and it contained much wealth. Therefore you were a fool, Farmer, and that's why I laughed at you. And the black shoes would have held your life because you don't have many more To move back days, and actually they could for you for the three days suffice.«

Then the sailor jumped down from the oar, and so they separated And it happened just as the sailor had said.