{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/hoe/hoe2-32.htm","path":"neu/hoe/hoe2-32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/hoe/hoe2-32.htm","text":"FOUR boys were playing one Sunday on the banks of Lake Peipus, when the water-spirit appeared to them in the form of an old man with long grey hair and beard, and gave each of them a present\u2014a boat, a hammer, a ploughshare, and a little book. As they grew up, one became a smith, another a fisherman, another a farmer, and the last a great king, who conquered the Danes and Swedes.\nAfter this story, of which we have only given a brief abstract, we place another, descriptive of the dwellings of the lake-spirits.","title":"THE FOUR GIFTS OF THE WATER-SPRITE. (JANNSEN.)","type":"page"}