Under the long side of a wood-pile, along some rowan wood.
Where can the boy be sent—the jewel (F. worth) be directed?
Thither must he be carried
To the remotest field, to the unploughed border of the field.
v. Into the autumn night's embrace.
It is by no means pleasant being there,
There pigs keep routing up the ground, the "down-turned snouts" keep turning it.
Where can the boy be sent, can Ungermo be directed,
Can he be taken into the deep forest?
The boy is taken into a deep forest—to the centre of a honeyed wood.
For the boy 'tis evil being there.
Honeyed woods dry up, hunters may burn them down.
Where can the evil boy be sent—the injurious one be destroyed,
Can he be carried into the water?
The boy was led into the water; for the boy 'tis evil being there.
Young men drag there with a net—keep flogging with a line,
Old men stretch out a net—fasten it with stone sinks.
Where can the boy be sent—can Ungermo be directed?
The boy was led to a field run wild—to a rotten birch-stump home,
To a mouldering stump's recess.
There he changed into a 'worm'—appeared as a lizard.
v. There a snake was born, a little lizard appeared.
Variants.
2-3 Upon a beach opposite a sleigh, with their backs towards the land, with their heads towards the water.
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