Then he met another big man, and this man did nothing but eat men, and their kayaks he threw down into a great ravine. The man rowed up to this giant. And when he reached him, the man-eater said: “Come here and look,” and led him to the deep ravine. And when the man looked down, the giant tried to thrust him backwards down into the depth.
But the man caught hold of the giant’s legs and cast him down instead. And then he went on again.
And as he was rowing on, he heard the bone of a seal calling to him: “Take away the moss which has stopped up the hole that goes through me.” And he did so, and went on again.
Another time he heard a mussel at the bottom of the sea crying:
“Here is a mussel that wishes to see you; come down to the bottom; row your kayak straight down through the water—this way!”
That mussel wanted to eat him. But he did not heed it.
Then at last one day he saw an old woman, and rowed towards her, and came up to her. And she said:
“Let me dry your boots.” And she took them and hung them up so high that he could not reach them. The man would have slept, but he could not sleep for fear.
“Give me my boots,” he said. For it was now revealed that she was a man-eater. And so he got hold of his boots and fled down to his kayak, and the woman ran after him.
“If only I could catch him, and cut him up,” she said. And as she spoke, the kayak nearly upset.