"Ay," said the cow, "it is not long since she passed here."
So she goes on, and it was not long before she met the mill, and said she: "Mill, mill of mine, did you see this maid of mine, with my tig, with my tag, with my long leather bag, and all the gold and silver I have earned since I was a maid?"
And the mill said: "Yes, she is sleeping behind the door."
"Going up to a little house, she found an old hag."
She went in and struck her with a white rod, and turned her into a stone. She then took the bag of gold and silver on her back and went home.
When the second daughter had been gone a year and a day and she hadn't come back, the youngest daughter said: "My two sisters must be doing very well indeed, and making great fortunes when they are not coming back, and it's a shame for me to be sitting here doing nothing, either to help you, mother, or myself. Make me a bannock and cut me a callop, till I go away and push my fortune."
The mother did this and asked her would she have half of the bannock with her blessing or the whole bannock without.
She said: "I will have half of the bannock with your blessing, mother."