Unlike most people who wish for wealth and beauty, the pika wishes that the reindeer cure her brothers malaise. Rather than capture it, she frees it and, in return, it grants her a wish. The pika searches as well, and soon encounters the reindeer stuck in the brambles. All the pikas brothers and sisters, except Hans Peter, run outside and join the search. Anyone capturing the reindeer will be granted one wish. When the pika was twelve, a white reindeer was seen in the village. Her mother dotes on Askeladden and complains about everyone else. The third and, according to lore, lucky brother, Askeladden, would rather spend his days cavorting. He spends his days carving strange figures out of wood. Her favorite brother, Hans Peter, has recently returned from an extended sea voyage faded, sad and gray. Pika means girl, which is the equivalent of having no name. Life is cold and bleak in the Northlands and it has been for years.
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