Then he shook himself together, and opened his eyes and said,
"Oh,-wife, what did you say?"
"Husband," said she, "if I cannot get the power of making the sun and moon rise when I want them, I shall never have another quiet hour. Go to the fish and tell him so."
"O wife!" said the man, and fell on his knees to her, "the fish can really not do that for you. I grant you he could make you emperor and pope; do be contented with that, I beg of you."
And she became wild with impatience, and screamed out,
"I can wait no longer, go at once!"
And so off he went as well as he could for fright. And a dreadful storm arose, so that he could hardly keep his feet; and the houses and trees were blown down, and the mountains trembled, and rocks fell in the sea; the sky was quite black, and it thundered and lightened; and the waves, crowned with foam, ran mountains high. So he cried out, without being able to hear his own words,
"O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not."
"Well, what now?" said the flounder.
"Oh dear!" said the man, "she wants to order about the sun and moon."
"Go home with you!"said the flounder, "you will find her in the old hovel."
And there they are sitting to this very day.

他以为是自己听错了，就揉了揉眼睛，大声地问："老婆，你说什么来着？"
"当家的，"她说，"要是我不能对太阳和月亮发号施令，要他们升他们就升，要他们落他们就落，我就没法活了。我要按自己的意愿要他们什么时候升起，不然我就难以有一刻的安宁。"
她极其凶狠地瞪着丈夫，吓得他不寒而慄。
"快去！"她喊叫起来，"我要成为太阳和月亮的主人。""哎呀呀，我的老婆呀！"渔夫跪在她面前说，"比目鱼办不到这个呀，他只能使你成为皇帝和教皇。好好想一想，我求求你啦，就当教皇算啦。"
一听这话，她勃然大怒，脑袋上的头发随即飘荡起来。 她撕扯着自己的衣服，朝着丈夫狠狠地踢了一脚，冲他吼叫道："我再也无法忍受啦！我再也无法忍受啦！你给我快去！"
渔夫赶紧穿上衣服，发疯似的跑了出去。
外边已是狂风呼啸，刮得他脚都站不住了。 一座座的房屋被刮倒，一棵棵大树被吹翻，连山岳都在震颤着身子，一块块的岩石滚落在大海中。天空雷鸣电闪，一片漆黑，大海掀起滚滚的黑色巨浪，浪头有山那么高，浪尖上翻涌着白沫。
渔夫嘶声力竭地喊道：
"比目鱼啊，你在大海里，
恳请你好好听我说仔细，
我捉你放你没提愿望，
老婆对此却不饶又不依。 "
"那么，她到底想要什么呀？"比目鱼问。
"唉，"渔夫回答说，"她想要当太阳和月亮的主人。"
"回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她又重新住进了那个破渔舍。"
就这样，他们一直在那儿生活到今天。