“Go away now; you will never have this dear little wife of yours again.”
And then Isigâligârssik had to go home without a wife. And Isigâligârssik had to live without a wife. And every time there was a spirit calling, and he went in, the wizard would say:
“Ho, what are you doing here, you who have no wife?”
But now anger grew up slowly in him at this, and once when he came home, he said:
“That wizard in there has mocked me well, but next time he asks me, I shall know what to answer.”
But the others of the village warned him, and said:
“No, no; you must not answer him. For if you answer him, then he will kill you.”
But one evening when the bad wizard mocked him as usual Isigâligârssik said:
“Ho, and what of you who took my wife away?”
Now the wizard stood up at once, and when Isigâligârssik bent down towards the entrance to creep out, the wizard took a knife, and stabbed him with a great wound.