No!
Come and get your son.
But you can't return a child to me.
Because I don't have one.
- What are you doing with her? - She's my sister.
You went behind my back.
You're a disgrace to the whole Borka line.
Tell me what you want me to do!
I don't care what you do. You're not my child.
Mattis!
I'm moving to the forest. I can't live in Borka Keep any longer.
- Where will you go? - To the Borka Cave.
I'll come to the cave.
Mattis's silence is worse than all the shouting and yelling in the world.
- Welcome. - Thank you.
We know where the human children are.
Little humans...
Wile-wings!
We will scratch!
Come!
Claw, scratch, tear!
Here.
Hurry!
No!
We didn't manage to run away for long.
We can't stay here.
I'm not going back to Mattis Fortress, that's for sure.
Where will we go then?
We could stay in Bear Cavern.
- What's that? - A big cave.
Not as big as this one, but you can live there.
Is it far?
Quite far.
It's up on the mountain by the river, close to Gobble Falls.
It feels like you can see the whole world from there.
Let's go there.
BASED ON ASTRID LINDGREN'S BOOK
RONJA THE ROBBER'S DAUGHTER
Bear Cavern. Is it called that because there are bears there?
Only in the winter. It's their hibernation place.
So they're not there now?
They shouldn't be.
Unless one of them has really overslept.
How do you know about the place?
Mattis stayed there during the summers sometimes.
When he was a boy.
But won't he come and look for you there?
No.
Not there, and not anywhere else.
Why...
What's this here?
Why are they doing this?
What do they actually eat?
Old people.
What?
In the olden days, old people were left on rocks in the forest.
And then the rump-goblins would come and eat them.
You're joking.
Yes, I am.
I actually don't know what they eat.
I've never seen them eat.
Want to do something fun?
Yes.
Throw it!
- Here it comes! - Throw it!
Why are they doing this?
Miss! Miss us!
Miss! Miss us.
One more time!
We'll go again.
Aim...
Here it comes!
And roll.
Here it comes!
Hi!
- When are we there? - Soon.
Is your "soon" the same as your "quite"?
What?
You said that Bear Cavern was "quite far away."
A whole day is not quite far away.
It's far away.
- So when is "soon"? - Soon is soon.
Will we get there today?
Maybe not, if you're going to stand there whining.
So let's go.
We're almost there, but we need to climb the last part.
Be careful here.
I wouldn't exactly be doing somersaults.
No. But still.
Here it is.
- It's more beautiful than I expected. - I know.
And it all belongs to us.
It's ours until the bears return.
Cover your ears, Birk.
Here comes my spring shout.
- Do you want some meat? - Sure.
Thank you.
We'll have to drink spring water from now on. And nothing else.
We won't get fat.
But we won't die from it either.
I'll sleep like I'm dead tonight.
Because it has been "quite" a long day.
Yeah.
Will you sing?
Do you want me to sing?
Yes.
Howling wolf in the nighttime wood
Lamenting with hunger he whines
But I shall give him a piggy tail
A morsel well fit for his kind
Oh wolf, oh wolf, keep away from here
Never shall you take my baby
Mattis!
Mattis, I am here!
Mattis!
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Fishing net, grinding stone...
- I see you know what we need out here. - We need food.
- And to be able to defend ourselves. - We can make bows and arrows too.
If you let me use the knife.
- Only if you're careful with it. - Of course I will be.
The knife is the most important thing we have. Without it, we can't survive.
- Do you know what else? - Yes. Each other.
That too.
I was thinking something to collect fresh water in.
You have your flask.
It's way too small.
But you're in luck, Birk Borkason, because I know where to get a bucket.
- Lovis calls it the Health Spring. - Why?
I don't know.
Skully-Per says he needs it for his stomach.
But I suspect he just thinks it's funny to send someone halfway across the forest.
Here it is!
Wait, Birk.
This is a magical place.
You can't just approach the spring like that.
How should I approach it then?
There are ancient rites that you have to follow.
I can teach you, if you have to come here alone some time.
First, get down on all fours and crawl towards the spring.
Then say your name backwards three times.
Birk...
K... Krib...
Krib.
And then, between each "Krib," you need to oink loudly like a pig.
Krib... Krib... Krib...
And then you lift one leg, like a dog peeing.
- Are you sure about this? - Very sure.
They are very old rites.
Krib...
- You... - No!
No, Krib Pig-oinker! Stop!
Just you wait.
I'll have to wait.
Otherwise you'll never catch up with me, slow as you are.
- I will trick you one day. - You can try.
- Do you know what else I will do? - What?
Let you say that name one more time, but only one.
You mean Krib Pig-oinker?
That's right.
Now you've said it.
We'll see about that.
Krib Pig-oinker.
That's it!
Just you wait.
When Lovis sends someone here, they won't find a bucket.
They can bring another.
They stole it anyway.
But we're not robbers and never will be.
Then let's borrow it for as long as we need.
We can be borrowers.
- Aren't you going to fill it up? - We can fill it in the river later.
This will make a good bow.
We have to make bowls too.
Five of them.
Thank you.
Stop whittling and come eat.
It has to dry for a few days anyway.
Then I will make bow strings and some arrows.
Be careful with the knife.
Of course I will be.
I can help you later.
Howling wolf in the nighttime wood
He longs for sleep, but it won't come
His wolf belly aches for a bit of food
And it's cold in his den
Oh wolf, oh wolf, keep away from here
Never shall you take my baby
How about that one?
Yes. Let's use that.
These might make good arrows.
What is it?
What happened? Are you okay?
I cut myself.
It's bleeding.
- It'll just bleed until it stops. - No, not with that.
Ouch.
Wait here.
What's that?
Plantain. It will help heal the wound and stop the bleeding.
I'm putting it on now.
There.
I'll apply some pressure.
There.
- Are you all right? - Yeah.
Lovis puts bog moss on wounds.
I'll pick some for us to have in store.
One, two...
Yeah!
And... Now!
Hold on.
One, two, three...
Now.
Yes!
Come on!
- Okay, I'm coming. - Yes, come on.
It's not that cold, is it?
No!
Do you know what I think?
No, what?
That I will remember this summer
for the rest of my life.
So will I.
We might as well keep going.
If we've said we're going to have five bowls, we will have five bowls.
Here.
- Do you have the knife? - No.
- Where is it? - I don't know.
- You had it last. - I didn't.
Yes, you did. Give it to me.
I don't have it. Can't you hear what I'm saying?
- So where did you put it? - Where did you put it? You had it last.
It's not out here.
Can't you do anything right?
I've looked.
- We can't survive without a knife. - Then you should have looked after it.
I shouldn't have given it to you.
You're a scoundrel to blame others.
This is just like you. You think you're better than everyone else.
And I have to live with you!
You won't have to!
You damn scoundrel.
You go live with your beloved knife if you can find it.
I hope the wile-wings take you!
Ronja!
I'm a fool.
Ronja!
Ronja?
Easy now.
What happened to you?
Birk!
Did you see the bear?
I chased it off, but it killed the foal.
Hey.
We'll help you.
Get the bog moss.
Hey, it's okay.
It's okay. We'll take care of you.
We'll take care of you.
- We'll take care of you. - Here.
Thank you.
Hold this.
Now what do we do?
We can't just leave her here.
So what do we do?
We can't get her up to the cave.
So where can we keep her?
We could keep her here until the wound has healed.
Yes.
Hey.
This is for you to eat. Yes.
Yeah.
Good.
- Birk... - Yes.
Get a bowl and a rope.
Okay. Take this.
Now we have a pet.
What should we call her?
Lia.
Lia?
Yes, that's what we'll call her.
Why?
Because it's pretty.
And that's what I want.
Has it got anything to do with Mattis?
His first horse was called that.
It's a good name.
Lia.
The mare who wasn't supposed to die.
- And we have milk again. - Yes.
Thank you, Lia.
Goodbye.
It's a shame that the knife got lost, though.
It's good that it turned up again.
- Did you find it? - Yeah. It was under the firewood.
- Do you know what I'm thinking? - No.
How easy it is to ruin everything, for no reason at all.
Then we have to watch out for no reason at all.
I think we can manage that.
I've always been good at watching out for things.