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There was once a skipper of Dyrevig called Bardun. He was so headstrong that there was no doing anything with him. Whatever he set his mind upon, that should be done, he said, and done it always was.
If he promised to be at a dance, the girls could safely rely upon his being there, though it blew a tempest and rained cats and dogs.