and here all the elves , and fairies , and mermaids of the north were holding festival with warlocks , and brownies , and pixies , and even the phantom hunters themselves , who are never looked upon by mortal eyes . and the witches from fife held festival with them , and danced , and feasted , and sang with them , and , what was of more consequence , they learned from them certain wonderful words , which , when they uttered them , would bear them through the air , and would undo all bolts and bars , and so gain them admittance to any place soever where they wanted to be . and after that they had come home again , delighted with the knowledge which they had acquired . " what took you to such a land as that ? " asked the old man , with a contemptuous grunt . " you would hae been a sight warmer in your bed . "
there was a festival .
why did the wife and her friends go to the land of the lapps ?
why did the wife and her friends go to the land of the lapps ?