When they saw that it was a large, wolf-like giant, all the stiff-haired Lapp-dogs gathered about him.

Marit became so terrified that she ran away without saying farewell.

Oyvind rushed into the midst of the fray, kicked and fought; but the dogs merely changed the field of battle, and then flew at one another again, with hideous howls and kicks; Oyvind after them again, and so it kept on until they had rolled over to the edge of the brook, when he once more came running up.

The result of this was that they all tumbled together into the water, just at a place where it was quite deep, and there they parted, shame-faced.

Thus ended this forest battle.