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Why did you kill her? asks the king. 



PerÀerqoja'q takes a hen and bends down to liis mothers 

 ear with it, so that it bawls out loudly. His mother rises. 

 The king says: I should like to own that hen! I shall give 

 you much money for it. PerÀerqojœq gave it to him. 



Now when the king had returned home he stuck his own 

 wife with the knife. Then he screamed into her ear, but she 

 did not move. The king became angry and went together with 

 his officers to Perkerqoja-q. But as soon as they stepped in, 

 he said: Hammer, strike them down! One by one they fell, 

 and when the king remained almost alone, he said: let me go! 

 you shall have my daughter. 



Thus it happened that Per/lerqoja-q got the king's daughter 

 in compensation. 



