“That’s Olsok (St. Olaf’s day), July 29, marked with an axe. The bonder must not mow that day, or there will come vermin on the cattle.
“That’s Laurentius’ day, marked with a gridiron.
“That’s Kverne Knurran, marked with a millstone, Sept. 1. If it’s dry that day the millers will come to want water.
“That’s vet-naet (winter-night), Oct. 14, when the year began. That’s a glove,[25] to show cold weather is coming. There’s an old Runic rhyme about that, where Winter says:—
On winter-night for me look out,
On Fyribod (Oct. 28) I come, without doubt;
If I delay till Hallow e’en,
Then I bow down the fir-tree green.”
The “Tale of the Calendar”[26] was, however, now interrupted by a tap at the window, and a man screams out—