Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,
Tales from the Fjeld — The Skipper and Old Nick
(1908)
“ The Skipper and Old Nick NCE on a time there was a skipper who was so wonderfully lucky in everything he undertook; there was no one who got such freights, and no one who earned so much money, for it rolled in upon him on all sides, and, in a word, there was no one who was good to make such voyages as he, for whithersoever he sailed, he took the wind with him—nay, men did say he had only to turn his hat and the wind turned the way he wished it to blow. ”
