"Come on, Borka!" "Piss ant!" "You yellow belly!" "Come down, if you dare!" "Even spring is ruined by a couple of bull-headed robber-chiefs." "There is too much bile in the air." "I want to go home now." "We have to go our separate ways." "No one can see us together." "A toast to Borka!" "Ronja, you were right!" "There was no need for bloodshed." "Now Borka will go to hell before he has time for his morning fart." "Look over there." "Look what I caught just now with my bare hands." "You animal!" "You can't do this!" "What is it I can't do?" "Rob if you must." "Money and things." "But not people!" "I don't want to be your daughter if you do." "What is she talking about?" "I have caught a vermin, a louse." "And now I intend to clean my castle." "Then you can be my daughter or not, as you please." "Damn you!" "Damn you!" "You shouldn't say such things to your father." "Fjosok, go to the Hellmouth." "and send a message to Borka tell him I want to see him up there as soon as the sun rises." "Don't touch the vermin!" "This wound needs cleaning." "Get out, all you men!" "Get lost!" "You never do anything but damage!" "Do you hear that, Mattis?" "Get out!" "Damn you, Mattis!" "Mattis, you lousy dog, you bastard!" "Come out, so I can spit in you ugly face!" "May vittrorna claw your eyes out, you cowardly child-robber!" "God damn you, you ass." "You devils eunuch!" "Make your own son, instead of going after the one I bore for Borka." "Can't you make your woman shut up?" "Ah Mattis, you damn..." "You are dismal, Mattis." "Going after my son to get us to leave." "That is low." "I want to know when you intend to leave." "If I get my son back then I will leave before the summer is over." "Then you will get your son before the summer is over." "We have dungeons in Mattis-castle." "So he will not want for a roof over his head." "Let that be some consolation, in case we have a rainy summer." "Just cry!" "I would cry to if I had such a beast of a father." "Now, Mattis..." "We have dungeons on this side of the castle too." "Now can I have my son back?" "Sure." "At the same time you will get your child." "Barter you understand." "Sheepdog!" " I don't have a child." " What can't of shenanigans is this ?" "Here is your son." "But you can't return my child to me." "I don't have one." "But I do." "And I want that child back now." "Even if the child's father has gone insane." "Are you going?" " Get over there!" "What have you got going on with her?" "She is my sister." "Well, we'll see about that in a few years time." "Don't touch me!" "Birk!" "Ronja." "Don't speak to me." "I am so glad you're alive..." "Don't speak to me!" "The wolf howls in the forest night He wants, but cannot, sleep" "Birk!" "Birk!" "Where are you?" "Birk!" "Birk!" "Screaming and shouting in the forest. whyyyyy?" "Screaming and shouting. whyyyyyyyy?" "Birk!" "Screaming and shouting in the forest." "Birk!" "Whyyy is she shouting like this?" "Whyyy is she shouting like this?" "She's been screaming for three days." "Whyyyyy?" "Because I miss him." "Can you understand that, rumpnissar?" "Ronja!" "Birk!" "Now there are more of them shouting." "Whyyyyy?" "I'm moving to the forest." "But, why?" "whyyyyyyyyy?" "I can't stand the nagging and the yelling any more." "I want to get out of Mattis-castle as well." "I was born in a cave, so I can certainly live in the Bear cave." "But can you?" "I can live anywhere with you." "I'll come tonight." "I'll be there waiting for you." "Enough is enough!" "I'm tired of this." "Mattis has been laying in my bed, starring at the wall for three whole days." "Doesn't say anything, doesn't eat anything." "Sit down and eat." "Can't you see that everyone is waiting for you." "Are you full now, jesters?" "Goodbye, Lovis." "Maybe I will see you again, maybe not." "I'm sorry, but I have to." "Go away, grey dwarves!" "Birk, where are you?" "Ronja, I've been waiting so long." "This is for you." "Eat, then sing me the wolf song." "Does that mean you want to sleep." "I spent all day cleaning up after the bear that lived here last winter." "I have carried firewood." "Where there is a fire, there is a home." "Yes, this is our home now." "The wolf howls in the forest night He wants, but cannot, sleep" "But I can!" "Hunger gnaws at his stomach and it is cold in his house" "It should be Lovis." "Mattis..." "I don't have a child!" "I don't have a child." "I don't have a child." "I don't have a child!" "I don't have a child!" "I'm frozen stiff." "It is coldest at dawn." "Let's get the fire started." "Come!" "This is the last of the milk." "After this there is only cold water." "That won't make us fat, but it won't kill us either." "Cover your ears, here comes my spring howl." "You see!" "Spring comes when I call for it." "I was thinking of getting some fresh water." "Thinking doesn't get us any water." "Something smells nice." "Is it ready soon?" "Now we will have food for several days." "And salmon tastes nice." "What's wrong?" "I cut my foot." "It can bleed for as long as it likes." "Lovis always used to put moss on the wound." "I'll go and get some." "Who knows when you will cut yourself again?" "Are you bringing salmon again!" "We never seem to eat anything else." "Even so, it's food." "The moss is dry." "Now you can cut yourself again." "Throw me the knife." "The knife?" "You have it." "No, you had it last." "I don't have the knife!" "What have you done with it?" "You had it last." "I thought I had explained to you that without a knife we cannot survive in the forest." "You're a little shit placing the blame on others!" "Robber-daughter!" "And one is supposed to live with you." "Well, you won't have to anymore, Borka-robber." "Live with the knife, if you can find it!" "To hell with her!" "The knife?" "But then..." "Oh no..." "Ronja!" "Whyyyyy whyyyyyy..." "Let her stay in the forest for all I care." "Whyyyy, Whyyyyy?" "She'll come back sooner or later." "She'll come back sooner or later?" "Just let her try..." ""It's too late now." "You should have come sooner."" "I should have come sooner?" "Whyyyyyyy, whyyyyy?" "Ronja!" "Ronja!" "She's probably gone home to Mattis-castle." "Poor thing!" "Who has treated you so badly?" "Birk!" "Birk!" "Birk!" "Did you see the bear?" "It killed her foal." "These things happen in the forest." "But I don't want it to!" "Quick - go get the moss." "Otherwise she will bleed out." "Poor thing." "There, all done." "Whyyy whyyyy..." "Whyyyy are they doing this?" "So she won't bleed to death." "What about her foal?" "Gone!" "Doesn't exist any more!" "We know." "Too bad the knife was lost." "Good thing I found it again." "It was lying right there under the moss whilst we were yelling at each other." "To think that things can turn out so wrong so unnecessarily." "That's why we should avoid the unnecessary!" "Come!" " They're not as shy anymore." "Your foal should have had this milk." "Now you can give it to us." "We could need it." "Let's ride!" "This is what they did." "Rag-rut and wild-child, good names." "We'll put the straps in their mouths." "Look how little milk there is." "Soon we will have neither milk nor bread." "Thank you, Lia." "Next summer you will have a new foal." "Wild horses have a good life, even in winter." "It is summer now, my sister." "Winter..." "Ronja!" "Lill-Klippen, is it you!" "To think that you have come!" "Nice view you have here." "You can see the river and the forest." "You haven't come to look at the view, have you?" "No, Lovis sent me." "With bread." "Lovis bread..." " Birk, look!" "We've got bread." "Mmmh, smells nice!" "Lovis figured you would be running out of bread by now." "Ronja..." "Aren't you coming home soon?" "Everyone is waiting." "Mattis too?" "That beast!" "He says nothing." "Doesn't he even mention my name?" "No." "I'm never coming home!" "Not as long as I am not Mattis' child." "Tell him that." "I don't think even Skalle-Per would dare pass on that message." "So you didn't go home to your father then." "I don't have a father." "I can survive without a brother as well." "Sorry if am being unfair." "But I know what you go around thinking about." "That I have lived through eleven winters, but the twelfth will be my death." "It is summer now." "Leave my shoes alone!" "Birk, vildvittrorna!" "Duck, Ronja!" "Krax!" "Now the blood will flow!" "Krax, krax, krax!" "Now the blood will flow!" "Where are the little humans?" "Where are they?" "Birk, where are you?" "Here." "Hurry up!" "Krax!" "Now the blood will flow!" "Krax, krax, krax!" "Where are the little humans?" "Where are they?" "Nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be found." "Krax!" "Nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be found!" "Krax!" "I though you had drowned." "Not yet, but soon." "Can you hear the waterfall?" "Let go of the birch!" "Lovis!" "My child!" "Your hair is wet." "Have you been swimming?" "We have swum a little, Birk and I." "Aren't you going to greet my mother?" "One doesn't greet uninvited guests." "My mother taught me that." "Shame she didn't teach you some common sense as well!" "Birk is...tired." "You know why I have come." "Not to give me bread, I suppose?" "You can have bread when you come home." "I am never coming home." "Then Mattis will jump in the river." "He doesn't even mention my name." "Every night he cries in his sleep and calls your name." "It is hard to watch someone suffer so inhumanly." "Come home." "I can't." "Not even if Mattis asked you himself?" "He never will." "Go to bed." "I'll sit here till it gets light." "Then I'll go off home." "I want to fall asleep in your lap." "And you will sing me the wolf song." "The wolf howls in the forest night He wants, but cannot, sleep" "Hunger gnaws at his stomach" "And it is cold in his house" "Wolf, wolf, do not come here" "What's the matter, Birk?" "I am sitting here mourning." "I want to have this summer in peace, without messengers from Mattis-castle." "You'll be returning there when the winter comes." "I will be staying here." "and freeze to death?" "I don't care if I live, if I can't be with you." "Who has said that I am going back to Mattis-castle?" "I intend to freeze to death on my own, if that is the way it has to be." "But now it is summer, Ronja." "It's a rainy summer we are having." "It's a windy summer we are having." "It's a cold summer." "You're not very careful with your life." "I'm going to get some water." "I'll come once I've got the fire started." "My child, my child..." "I have my child!" "Am I your child now?" "Am I really your child?" "Yes, Ronja, as you have always been." "How I have cried over you." "Is it true what Lovis says, that you will come home if I ask you?" "Ronja, come with me." "Even though I haven't asked you yet, but I am asking now." "Ronja, come home with me." "Birk son of Borka, come over here !" "What do you want?" "Honestly, to beat you up." "But I won't." "I am asking you to come with me to Mattis-castle." "Don't imagine for one second that I like you." "But my daughter does." "Are you saying that Birk can come home with us?" "I need to speak with Birk privately." "But after that we are going home." "Does he think that I going to become a whopping boy for the Mattis-robbers?" "Would you rather freeze to death in the bear cave?" "I think so." "One should take good care of ones life." "If you stay in the bear cave you are wasting your life." "And mine." "Your life?" "Yes, if you're staying I'm staying with you." "If you want me to or not." "I wouldn't want to waste your life, Ronja." "I'll follow you wherever you go, even if I have to live amongst Mattis-robbers." "Ronja!" "Lill-Klippen!" "Thank you for letting me see Ronja whenever I want." "Now I am going home to Borka." "If only your father wasn't such a bastard, we would do what Skalle-Per has been suggesting." "What has Skalle-Per been suggesting?" "He has so many crazy ideas." "To think that she has returned home to us!" "I have never seen a dirtier child." "My dirty child has come home." "Now I will perform my happiness-fart." "Well, one needs to give people a proper salute when they return home." "Ronja?" "What's the matter?" "I just wanted to make sure you were there." "Of cause I am, stupid." "Borka and Undis were so happy to see me." "I never thought they cared about me." "You can stay with them until spring comes." "Then we're moving back to the bear cave." "The guards are after us." "Hide!" "Aaaaaah!" "Just you wait!" "Soon I will crush every measly little guard in the Mattis-forest!" "Brag when you're riding home." "That's what my mother always used to say." "The guards will win if you don't do as I say." "Don't bring up that madness about me and Borka joining forces again." "Who would be the chief?" "Borka?" "Let a fight decide." "You're sure to win a fight between the two of you, you ox." "It gives me great grief that you're such a bastard." "Otherwise I would have made you my second a long time ago." "And it gives me great grief that I will disfigure your face." "for you're already uglier than ought to be legal." "It will pain me to smash you up so badly that Undis will cry when she looks upon you." "Mattis is and remains the strongest robber-chief in all mountains and forests." "Borka, you will still remain chief in name as well as in honour but from now on my word will be the law, you understand that." "Come on." "How are you, my Mattis?" "Little Borka, you could use some beer about now." "Not this way." "Over there, over there." "We won!" "Go and sit down over there." "Don't feel bad about loosing the fight today, Borka." "When you and I are gone your son will take over I should imagine" "Ronja doesn't want to." "And when she says no, there is no changing her mind." "Does Birk want to be a robber-chief?" "He does." "I, Birk son of Borka, swear that I will never be a robber-chief, for as long as I may live." "There is no winning with children these days." "One just needs to learn to accept that." "Though it's not easy." "Cheers." "Come here, let me show you something." "Come on." "Not me!" "Satan!" "Lovis, wake up!" "I'm in pain." "My only consolation is that that bastard Borka is lying over there in even greater agony." "Undis!" "We beat the guards, you should have seen us." "That Mattis isn't as stupid as he looks." "Fjosok!" "Take this one." "Now we have earned a proper feast." "Skalle-Per, we tricked the guard real good." "That Borka isn't as stupid as he looks." "Try to eat some soup." "It'll warm you up." "Aren't you better yet?" "No." "I might as well lie here and stare." "I'll stay here whilst I'm waiting." "What are you waiting for?" "Have a guess." "What's the matter with him?" "Old age." "That won't kill you will it?" "Well, I won't accept it!" "You can decide over many things, but not this." "Ronja..." "It gladdens my heart that neither you nor Birk want to become robbers." "It was alright in the old days." "Now they hang you for robbing." "People scream and cry when you take their stuff." "I couldn't stand it." "No, you could never handle it." "Do you remember when I told you about the little grey dwarf?" "The one you saved?" "Then he insisted on giving me..." "Look here comes Mattis!" "You look all drained and your eyes are red." "Are you sick?" "No, you're the sick one." "Skalle-Per needs to rest now." "First I want to hear the end of the story." "Well, you know the little brook..." "You can find you way there." "Yes, I can find my way there." "But you have to wait till spring, naturally." "Don't crowd me." "I'm so cold." "And you're so warm that the blood boils in your veins, Mattis." "Come here, I'll give you some warmth, old man." "He's dead!" "He's dead..." "Not at all." "I have enough manners to say goodbye before I go?" "But now, dear friends, I must take my leave of all of you." "For now I am dying." "Now he is as dead as any living human can get." "He has always existed!" "And now he is no more." "I know that no one lives for ever." "We are born and we die." "What are you grumbling about?" "I miss him!" "I miss him so much it hurts my chest." "Do you want me to hold you?" "Yes, please, hold me." " You too, Ronja." "Birk?" "Yes, what is it?" "There exists a mountain made of silver." "A grey dwarf showed it to Skalle-Per." "I'll believe it when I see it." "Well, what is this then?" "Lumps of silver can be good." "But they won't do us much good in the bear cave." "You can't eat lumps of silver." "No, you can't." "Have you spoken to Mattis yet, about moving out to the bear cave?" "Not yet" " I'm afraid." "He's going to be mad." "But you have to." "Well now, you're thinking about moving out." "Yes, I am." "My old cave!" "I lived there every summer when I was younger." "There is no better place to live." "Last years apples are rotten." "Not all of them." "Go, child, if your father thinks so." "But I will miss you." "Help, now he's angry." "I'm not angry at all ." "Surely one is allowed to throws things at the walls and have some fun from time to time?" "You will come back in autumn as usual?" "I will do what I normally do, and you will do what you normally do." "But the bear cave is mine." "I'll come and say hello." "Fine by me, but it will be a relief not to have to see his curly head every day." "Surely one is allowed to throw things and have some fun from time to time?" "Or what was it you said?" "Come here!" "Now it's only you and me." "You and me!"