“Why should I drive round a rock at all? I will go by the sunny side.”
When he came up alongside, he heard a woman singing drum songs, and whetting her knife; she kept on singing, and he could hear how the steel hummed as she worked.
Now he tried to overpower that old woman, but lost his senses. And when he came to himself, his heart was gone.
“I had better go round after all,” he thought to himself. And he went round by the shady side.
Thus he came up to the moon, and told there how he had lost his heart merely for trying to drive round a rock by the sunny side.
Then the Moon Man bade him lie down at full length on his back, with a black sealskin under, which he spread on the floor. This the Obstinate One did, and then the Moon Man fetched his heart from the woman and stuffed it in again.
And while he was there, the Moon Man took up one of the stones from the floor, and let him look down on to the earth. And there he saw his wife sitting on the bench, plaiting sinews for thread, and this although she was in mourning. A thick smoke rose from her body; the smoke of her evil thoughts. And her thoughts were evil because she was working before her mourning time was passed.
And her husband grew angry at this, forgetting that he had himself but newly bidden her work despite her mourning.
And after he had been there some time, the Moon Man opened a stone in the entrance to the passage way, and let him look down. The place was full of walrus, there were so many that they had to lie one on top of another.
“It is a joy to catch such beasts,” said the Moon Man, and the Obstinate One felt a great desire to harpoon one of them.