Crossword-Solution: HALFMAN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

But at night, when every one was asleep, Halfman crept softly to his brothers, and said to them, ‘Listen, all of you! This man is no uncle of ours, but an ogre.’ ‘Nonsense; of course he is our uncle,’ answered they.

When Halfman was quite sure she was sound asleep, he took the red cloth from his brothers and put it on the girls, and laid their white cloth over his brothers.

And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.’ The brothers needed no second bidding, and in a moment were out of the house.

Now give us each a daughter to wife, and let us return whence we came.’ ‘Take them!’ said the uncle; ‘the eldest for the eldest, the second for the second, and so on to the youngest.’ But the wife of Halfman was the prettiest of them all, and the other brothers were jealous and said to each other: ‘What, is he who is only half a man to get the best? Let us put him to death and give his wife to our eldest brother!’ And they waited for a chance.

After they had all ridden, in company with their brides, for some distance, they arrived at a brook, and one of them asked, ‘Now, who will go and fetch water from the brook?’ ‘Halfman is the youngest,’ said the elder brother, ‘he must go.’ So Halfman got down and filled a skin with water, and they drew it up by a rope and drank.