When the meat was cooked he tried again:
“Come, now, my dear, and prepare the meat.” But the bride was as bashful as before, and did not stir.
“Gracious! how bashful she is. I must do it myself,” repeated the Giant.
When he had prepared the meal he bade her come and eat, but without effect. The bride remained motionless in her corner. [[223]]
“The more for me, then,” thought he, and sat himself to the repast with a good appetite. When he had eaten, he bade his bride prepare the bed.
“Ah, my love, are you so bashful? I must then do it myself,” said the simple Giant.
“Go now and retire.” No, she had not yet overcome her bashfulness, whereupon the Giant became angry and grasped the object with great force.
Discovering how the Lapp had deceived him, and that he had only a block of wood instead of a human of flesh and blood, he was beside himself with rage, and started in hot pursuit after the Lapp. The latter, however, had so much the start that the Giant could not overtake him. At the same time it was snowing, which caused the Giant to lose his way in the mountains. Finally he began to suffer from the cold. The moon coming up, he thought it a fire built by the Lapp, and at once set out on a swift run toward it, but he had already run so far that he was completely exhausted. He then climbed to the top of a pine, thinking thereby to get near enough to the fire to warm himself, but he froze to death instead, and thus ends the story. [[224]]
