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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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your nurse speak? Did she ever put the blood
of a raven in your milk? Did she hang the claw
of a wolf round your neck? Did she ever make
you touch the skull of a dead man when you were
a child? Did you ever see the Uldra? Have
you ever heard the bells of their white reindeer
far away in the forest?”

“He is a healer, he is a healer,” said Turi’s
wife with a quick, uneasy glance at my face.

“He is befriended by the Uldra,” they all
repeated with an almost frightened expression in
their eyes.

I felt almost frightened myself as I drew back
my hand.

Turi said it was time to go to sleep, the day had
been long, I was to start at daybreak. We all
lay down round the smouldering fire. Soon all
was dark in the smoke-filled tent. All I could
see was the Pole Star shining down upon me
through the smoke-hole of the tent. I felt in my
sleep the warm weight of a dog over my breast
and the soft touch of his nose in my hand.

We were all on our legs at daybreak, the whole
camp was astir to see me off. I distributed
among my friends my much appreciated little
presents of tobacco and sweets, and they all
wished me God-speed. If all went well I was to
arrive the next day at Forsstugan, the nearest
human habitation in the wilderness of marshes,
torrents, lakes and forests which was the home of
the homeless Lapps. Ristin, Turi’s sixteen-year
old granddaughter, was to be my guide. She
knew a few words of Swedish, she had been once
before to Forsstugan, she was to push on from

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