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NOT DRIVING AND NOT RIDING
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There once was a king's son who wooed a maiden. But when they were on good terms, the prince lost all interest in the girl because she wasn't good enough for him. He tried to be rid of her by saying he would take her only if she could come to him not driving and not riding, not walking and not sliding, not hungry and not full, not naked and not clad, not by day, and not by night, for he believed she could never do it. The maiden took three barleycorns and bit them in two, so she was not full, but she was not fasting either. Then she draped a net over herself, so she was not naked and not clad. She then sat on a ram's back, her feet dragging along the ground so that she was not driving and not riding, not walking and not sliding. And it was in the twilight between night and day. When she reached the castle, she asked to see the prince, but the guards would not let her in because she was such a strange sight. But the prince awoke from the commotion and came to the window. The girl wrung one horn off the ram; and, standing up on the ram's back, knocked on the window with it. The prince had to open up and she was made a princess.

From Norwegian Folk Tales, collected by Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen and J
Ørgen Moe. The first edition appeared in 1845.




 

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HOW TO MAKE LUTEFISK.

First, the beaten stockfish (unsalted dry cod) is put in cold water for four or five days, but the water must be changed regularly. Then lye or pure crumbled birch or beech ash is boiled in a pot of water and set aside until the ashes fall to the bottom. The cold water is poured into a separate container, where it stands still until it becomes very clear. The fish is put in this clear water where it stays for three days and is removed three hours before it is washed in cold water, boiled like any other fish and eaten with melted butter and mustard.

From Marta Maria Stephensen's: A simple Cookery Pocket Booklet for Gentlewomen, 1800 (Translated by Hallfredur …rn Eriksson).


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