The Raven was rolling down the hill, and the Wolf was running past.
“Raven, I want to go for a ride too!” says the Wolf.
- You can’t, there’s a cliff here - you’ll fall into the river!
- I can ride! - said the Wolf and rolled away.
They reached a cliff, the Raven rose into the air, and the Wolf flew into the river. The Wolf cannot get out of the icy water, he asks the Raven to help him.
- You know how to skate! — Raven answers,
- I'll give you a herd of deer!
- No need, I have deer!
- I will give you my sister!
- Fine! - Raven agreed and helped the Wolf get out of the water.
The Wolf jumped out onto the shore, shook himself off and ran into the tundra, and from afar shouted:
- You are too black for my sister! Raven rose, flew over the hill and fell on
the path of the Wolf, turning into meat. The wolf ate the meat, and the Raven became the Raven again and turned the Wolf’s womb inside out and scattered the intestines like wolf bait. Raven brought the Wolf home.
- Let's celebrate! - the wife said to Raven. - Let's wait for the sons from the tundra!
And the Wolf's brothers waited and waited for him and went to look for him, but on the way they ate the bait and died. The sister waited and waited and sent the two remaining brothers. They went and also ate the bait. The wolf-brothers never arrived at home.
My sister had to go hunting.
She hurt her leg while hunting and barely made it home.
“I can’t hunt anymore, let my mother go!” - said the sister, lay down and never got up again.
That night the mother gave birth to a son - so much so that he spoke in the morning, and in the evening he went into the tundra to hunt. The next morning my son brought a whole deer,
The son sits, drinks tea and asks:
- Why do we have so many beds?
“These are old beds,” the mother answers.
- Why do we have so many bows and arrows?
- These are your father's arrows!
- No, you probably had more children than just my sister and me. I see the tracks near the yaranga.
At night, the youngest son followed in the footsteps of his brothers and came to the Raven's camp. He enters the yaranga and asks Raven:
-Where are my brothers?
“I don’t know,” says Raven.
- What is this scattered around your camp?
The old Raven got scared, hid, and his wife hid too.
The Wolf went to another yaranga, and there his brothers lay. The younger brother revived them all.
The brothers went home and took Raven’s daughter with them. The girl burst into tears:
- My father will scold me!
- It won’t, he killed all my brothers! - said the younger Wolf.
The brothers arrived home and made their father, mother and sister happy.
“Why didn’t you tell me anything about my brothers?” - asks the youngest son.
“I thought Raven would kill you too!” - said the mother. The crow brothers returned home from the tundra. Sat down to drink
tea and ask:
- Where is our sister?
- Oh, oh, we forgot about her! - said the mother and ran after her daughter to the neighboring yaranga, and when she screamed:
“There’s no one there, the young Wolf took everyone away!” The crow brothers came to the wolf brothers. They arrived, saw their sister and asked:
- Why are you here?
- The wolves took me away.
- Why did you take our sister? - the crow brothers asked the wolf brothers.
- Why did your father kill my brothers? - asked the younger Wolf.
—— We don’t know anything, we weren’t at home,
The Ravens and the Wolves argued for a long time and decided that whoever has the smaller family will have the girl. They did the math and Raven had more. We argued again and decided that whoever has the least things will have the girl. It turned out that Raven had more things. They started arguing again. Then the smaller Wolf says:
- Let's switch sisters!
And so they did. The raven brothers left their sister to the wolves, and took the wolves' sister to themselves, and never quarreled again.
All.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru