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By the aid of this instrument the people make wonderful sketches in music descriptive of the beauty of dawn and the close of a summer's day, with the birds' trills, or the huldre's song, or the ringing of marriage bells.

Many ballads tell of the beautiful huldre, of the fay who presages the destruction of fishermen, of the water sprite, and of the brownies who, living underground, are covetous of cattle.

The man was invisible, for what he had found was a huldre hat.

Then once more he called from the cliff— 'If thou art a huldre, then pray do not spell me; If thou art a maiden, then hasten to tell me.'

But there came no answer; and so he was sure she was a huldre.