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Title: East of the sun and west of the moon : old tales from the North
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885 Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813-1882 Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896 Nielsen, Kay Rasmus, 1886-1957
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Norway
Publisher: New York : G.H. Doran
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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oked at all the fine things that were there.At last he came to a drawer in a table, in which there laya golden key; he tried this key to all the locks he couldfind, but there was none it fitted till he came to a littlecupboard over the bed, and in that he found an old rustywhistle. I wonder if there is any sound in it, hethought, and put it to his mouth. No sooner had hewhistled than he heard a whizzing and a whirring fromall quarters, and such a large flock of birds swept down,that they blackened all the field in which they settled. What does our master want to-day ? they asked. If he were their master, the soldier said, he wouldlike to know if they could tell him how to get up to theearth again. No, none of them knew anything aboutthat; But our mother has not yet arrived, they said;*if she cant help you, no one can. So he whistled once more, and shortly heard somethingflapping its wings far away, and then it began to blow sohard that he was carried away between the houses like a 192
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