In this hidden nook of the mountain-forest she made her home.  With branches and stones and turf she walled in the open hollow of the rock. In marshy places she gathered the thick spongy mosses, yellow and red, and dried them in the sun for warmth at night in the cold weather.  She lived on roots and berries, acorns and nuts and wild fruit, and these in their time of plenty she stored against the winter.  Birds' eggs she found in the spring; in due season the hinds, with their young, came to her and gave her milk for many days; the wild bees provided her with honey.  With slow and painful toil she wove the cotton-grass and the fibres of the bark of the birch, so that she should not lack for clothing.