And she laid him in her bosom, and sat with him the whole night through, and put warmth into his heart.
And when the morning came, his heart beat.
"Methought I lay betwixt the wings of a cormorant, and leaned my head against its downy breast," said he.
The lad was ruddy and handsome, with curly hair, and he couldn't take his eyes away from the girl.
He took work upon the Vær.
But off he must needs be gadding and chatting with her, be it never so early and never so late.
So it fared with him as it had fared with the others.
It seemed to him that he could not live without her, and on the day when he was bound to depart, he wooed her.
"Thee I will not fool," said she. "Thou hast lain on my breast, and I would give my life to save thee from sorrow. Thou shalt have me if thou wilt place the betrothal ring upon my finger; but longer than the day lasts thou canst not keep me. And now I will wait, and long after thee with a horrible longing, till the summer comes."
On Midsummer Day the youth came thither in his boat all alone.