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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. The people of this island were so used to rain that they had even managed to live through the Flood, although, it is said, some of them never quite dried out, even to this day.
—Chapter 1 Vilemurk—it was said—the Lord of Winter, the Frost Fiend, had turned himself into a gigantic hog and eaten the sun the way a pig eats an apple.
—Chapter 1 “Boar,” said the young man, whose name was Meath. “He is the Hog Who Eats the Sun. He is Vilemurk, Lord of Winter.”
—Chapter 1 And since that time, Vilemurk, the Frost Fiend, has been known as the Hog Who Eats the Sun, and has been given a second name—Pig's Ploughman.
—Chapter 1 Why did he woo her? Why did she allow herself to be won? There is a puzzle between man and woman beyond ordinary meaning, and time can turn a girl into a hag and a man into a stick and the mystery into a gall, but it is born again at wakes and weddings—which is perhaps why they are so popular.
—Chapter 3 When he opened his eyes he saw a wet girl on the riverbank wringing out her long red hair, and he did not know whether the dream had brought her or she had brought the dream, and he didn't care.
—Chapter 3 “Well, you have lots to learn and I have lots to teach, only I shall have to learn too while teaching. So let's be about it.”
—Chapter 3 “Now? Certainly now. In these matters it is always now. In fact, as I see you sitting up there sweet and savory as a roast piglet, I understand that all this should have happened before. I am fair famished for you, little pig. And ripe for marriage.”
—Chapter 3 “But my mother has warned me about girls. I must not meet them, nor meeting, look, nor looking, speak, nor speaking, touch. I'm to avoid them altogether, the lovely fresh, rain-smelling creatures. She will not have me marry until I am forty.”
—Chapter 3 “In my opinion, widow, it will be your enemies who will be needing help.”
—Chapter 4 “He's mine, mine, mine, and you shan't have him!”
“He's mine now, and I shall keep him!”
“He has me, and needs no other!”
“He needs me, not his mother!”
—Chapter 4 “She's too tough to kill and too mean to die,” said Finn to himself, “but this will cool her off a bit.”
—Chapter 4 That day which started so cold grew steadily colder, so cold that the sunset froze in the sky. Its weight overbalanced the horizon, and it slid down the tilted line of the sky to the North Pole, where it stuck, flashing there in a pageantry of frozen colors we call the northern lights.
—Chapter 6 “It's a funny thing about courage. If you pretend hard enough it becomes real.”
—Chapter 6 “I haven't had an easy life,” said Kathleen. “But this worst is worse than any worst I've ever known.”
—Chapter 6 You shall do this and I do that. Between us—if fortune smiles, and we do not blacken her smile with our own fears—between us we shall conquer.”
—Chapter 6 There was a deep throb in her voice as she said: “By the high gods, you can charm the birds off a tree, and a girl out of her judgment. I don't know if I'm brave or foolish, but I'm with you till the death.”
—Chapter 6 For a skill unused is no skill at all.
—Chapter 8 “Why, nothing makes you feel as light-footed as being chained to a rock for a couple of months.”
—Chapter 8 There, riding his luck—which is another name for hardship challenged and overcome—he spied a small skiff hidden in the reeds.
—Chapter 8 Anyway, he took me to his castle at the bottom of the sea, and made me his wife. One of them, that is. But his favorite, I guess. Unless he's busier than even a god should be.
—Chapter 9 “The next time the gods fight, I'll stay neutral,” said Finn. “You help one of them, and they both become your enemies.”
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