Bishop Brynjolf

When Bishop Brynjolf was once on a tour of Skalholt, he pitched his tent on a mountain. He had four or five men in At night the bishop was awakened by an excessive A large hand was stretched through the tent and outside it was said: »A tent for a farmer, a peasant man!« The bishop saw that a giantess had come and not one of the smallest. He told her that she the one of his horses that he would describe to her in more detail, and keep it. Then the giantess went her way and took the horse. She threw it over her shoulders as easily as if it were a sheep and trudged up the mountain.

The next summer, the bishop stopped at the same place. but when his people woke up, he had disappeared from the tent. went out to look for him. After much searching they found him in a cave in the mountain where he sat and talked with the giantess who lived in had visited his tent last summer. They saw that she was crying, and It was as if hail was gushing out of their eyes. But the bishop and They did not know what they had said. He followed them then and went back home.

After this time, however, the bishop always had the habit of every Christmas Eve a stallion outside the barn on Skalholt was tied up. In the morning the stallion was always gone, and then it was known that the giantess had brought him for the festive feast had.