she could tell stories, as many as you liked, on any subject.
"Here are my five fingers," said the old goblin; "now tell
me a story for each of them."
So she took him by the wrist, and he laughed till he
nearly choked; and when she came to the fourth finger, there
was a gold ring on it, as if it knew there was to be a
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betrothal. Then the old goblin said, "Hold fast what you have:
this hand is yours; for I will have you for a wife myself."
Then the elfin girl said that the stories about the
ring-finger and little Peter Playman had not yet been told.
"We will hear them in the winter," said the old goblin,
"and also about the fir and the birch-trees, and the ghost
stories, and of the tingling frost. You shall tell your tales,
for no one over there can do it so well; and we will sit in
the stone rooms, where the pine logs are burning, and drink
mead out of the golden drinking-horn of the old Norwegian
kings. The water-god has given me two; and when we sit there,
Nix comes to pay us a visit, and will sing you all the songs
of the mountain shepherdesses. How merry we shall be! The
salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against
the stone walls, but he will not be able to come in. It is
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