Destiny, which no one escapes, had determined it otherwise. Oluf came
from Britain. They called him the Holy, and Andfind instantly found that
his voyage would be inauspicious to the giants. When he heard how Oluf's
ship rushed through the waves, he went down to the strand and blew the
sea against him with all his strength. The waves swelled up like
mountains, but Oluf was still more mighty than he. His ship flew
unchecked through the billows like an arrow from a bow. He steered
direct for our island. When the ship was so near that Andfind thought he
could reach it with his hands, he grasped at the fore-part with his
right hand, and was about to drag it down to the bottom, as he had often
done with other ships. Then Oluf, the terrible Oluf, stepped forward,
and, crossing his hands over each other, he cried with a loud voice--"

"'Stand there as a stone till the last day!' and in the same instant my
unhappy husband became a mass of rock. The ship went on unimpeded, and
ran direct against the mountain, which it cut through, separating from
it the little island which lies yonder."

"Ever since my happiness has been annihilated, and lonely and
melancholy have I passed my life. On Yule eve alone can petrified giants
receive back their life, for the space of seven hours, if one of their
race embraces them, and is, at the same time, willing to sacrifice a
hundred years of his own life. Seldom does a giant do that. I loved my
husband too well not to bring him back cheerfully to life, every time
that I could do it, even at the highest price, and never would I reckon
how often I had done it that I might not know when the time came when I
myself should share his fate, and, at the moment I threw my arms around
him, become the same as he. Alas! now even this comfort is taken from
me. I can never more by any embrace awake him, since he has heard the
name which I dare not utter, and never again will he see the light till