or of the White Storbuk who balked him. Yet those who live
near Jotunheim say that on stormy nights, when the snow is flying and
the wind is raving in the woods, there sometimes passes, at frightful
speed, an enormous White Reindeer with fiery eyes, drawing a snow-white
pulk, in which is a screaming wretch in white, and on the head of the
Deer, balancing by the horns, is a brown-clad, white-bearded Troll,
bowing and grinning pleasantly at him, and singing
Of Norway's luck
And a White Storbuk--
the same, they say, as the one that with prophetic vision sang by
Sveggum's Vand-dam on a bygone day when the birches wore their
springtime hangers, and a great mild-eyed Varsimle' came alone, to go
away with a little white Renskalv walking slowly, demurely, by her side.
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