The Bondman: A New Saga

There is a beautiful Northern legend of a man who loved a good fairy and wooed her and won her for his wife and then found that she was no more than a woman after all. Grown weary he turned his back upon her and wandered away over the mountains; and there on the other side of a ravine from where he was he saw as he thought another fairy who was lovely to look upon and played sweet music and sang a sweet song. Then his heart was filled with joy and bitterness and he cried Oh that the gods had given me this one to wife and not the other. At that with mighty effort and in great peril he crossed the ravine and made towards the fairy and she fled from him; but he ran and followed her and overtook her and captured her and turned her face to his face that he might kiss her and lo! she was his wife!