“But you must not, you cannot,” said the Moon Man, and promised him a share of the catch he had just made himself. But the Obstinate One would not be content with this; he took harpoons from the Moon Man’s store, and harpooned a walrus. Then he held it on the line—he was a man of very great strength, that Obstinate One—and managed to kill it. And in the same way he also dealt with another.
After his return from the Moon Man’s place, he left off being obstinate, and never again forced his wife to work while she was in mourning.
The Dwarfs
A man who was out in his kayak saw another kayak far off, and rowed up to it. When he came up with it, he saw that the man in it was a very little man, a dwarf.
“What do you want,” asked the dwarf, who was very much afraid of the man.
“I saw you from afar and rowed up,” said the man.
But the dwarf was plainly troubled and afraid.
“I was hunting a little fjord seal which I cannot hit,” he said.
“Let me try,” said the other. And so they waited until it came up to breathe. Hardly had it come up, when the harpoons went flying towards it, and entered in between its shoulder-blades.