Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ballad Stories of the Affections: From the Scandinavian
And all because he would not listen to the warnings of a mermaid, but deliberately cut her head ofi. There is no such pausing, no such description, as would infer a doubt of the reality of any folk in the story. The point is, not to convey the fact that sea - maidens exist, a truth of which every listener is aware, but to prove the folly of dis regarding their advice when they warn us against going to sea in bad weather.
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