Guldbraa Und Skegge

Hvam in the valleys, the old headquarters of the Sturlungener, lies in one Not very wide valley. Opposite HVAM, beyond the stream, lies a courtyard that is called acur; There are no other farms in the valley. Akur was once inhabited, Even if it looks like it is actually part of the possession of Hvam; reports where Sturla tells his dream and says it seems to him when he would be on the slope »opposite Akur«. According to Guldbraa, who first arrived at Akur should have lived, several places in the valley have been named, and about The following story is well known in the Westland.

Audur, the Soil-Rich, took possession of all the land at Hvamsfjord and later lived on Hvam. There she lived, with great splendor and much Wealth surrounded. The fields were against the west in the valley and reached to a slope These fields were very fertile, but Audur left a piece the earth lie fallow, although this is just as fertile as the remaining land, and she strictly forbade her servants to ever cultivate the entire southern field or graze the cattle there Leave, and if that happened once, the cattle were allowed at the next Not to be used for milking.

It happened when Audur, the ground rich, had grown very old that Once a beautiful, young woman came to Hvam. Guldbraa, but nobody knew where she came from, or from which gender she was. She did not meet the housewife herself, but only her caretaker. She asked him why the fields south of the Baches would not be built; would have to build it out. buy. soil of Hvam; for I suspect that the custom here is general, and that House will be built the most of all hate; therefore immediately the right to purchase the land without first asking Audur,« she said, handing him a bag filled with gold; But since he liked the gold and Audur took control of the court He took the gold and gave her the Sales law.

Audur soon learned of this and chased away her caretaker; she said that he would have no blessing from this gold, because it suspected her that this Guldbraa was a witch and a bad guest; but now their premonitions of the land south of the stream were fulfilled gone. "However, luck will cling to the soil of Hvam," she said, »so that it won't do any harm.« Then the caretaker came with the bag home and wanted to give it to Audur to appease her. He untied it, but a large bundle of snakes rolled under terrible stench from the bag, and he lost his mind and died shortly afterwards. He was thrown together with the bag into a crack in the rock which stood on the land that Guldbraa had bought, and since then this place has been called the Snake Gorge.

Audur rightly allowed the purchase to stand, but all the fields south of the stream, down from the lake up to a deep rocky cleft in the valley, she left it fallow; she had three crosses placed on the edge of the rock, why this place was later called the Kreuzkluft, and it said that Guldbraa's magic has no power over these crosses as long as she lived. Guldbraa also did not let anyone take these crosses and was careful not to let her cattle come near there. She built a large farm on her piece of land; there she built a sacrificial house and made great sacrifices and practiced much magic. But her magic tricks always failed when she had the eyes to Hvam; she said that she was always somewhere on the Heimacker of Hvam sees a great light, whose bright shine she could not tolerate; it would distract her and make mistakes in her science. A similar radiance shone from Audur’s Crosses on the edge of the cliff, but she did not believe that these as dangerous as the light from Heimacker. Never did we meet Audur and Guldbraa, nor did they allow their servants to visited across the stream, and never did their cattle come together. Audur was a Christian, but had no chapel on her farm; she performed their prayers on Kroßholar, because from there one could see the sacrificial house on Akur. Before she died, Audur decided that she would not wanted to lie in unconsecrated ground; but she said that she was fear the violence of the heathens and asked for the Flood knife. Now the place where she is buried is called the Audur Stone, and it is still a beach marker in the Hvamsfjord; when the current is strong, they say that the sea is either half risen or fallen when they are at the Audurstein breaks.

Guldbraa did not live long on Akur after Audur’s death; for although their power increased as paganism became more widespread and the Hvams people performed pagan worship and sacrifices on Starting to hold Kroßholar, she couldn't find peace because there was no rest Audur's grave was on the floodgate below her property and her Crosses above her, at the cleft on the edge of the rock. There she was Bad on it, and that's why she left the Akurland to the Hvamsmen, but took possession of the innermost part of the valley. dark, and the sun is low there in summer, most of the In winter, however, the sun does not shine at all on the south side of the valley She chose her place of residence as far as possible in the valley where it was the narrowest and darkest, and this place is called Guldbraa's hill from that time.

Guldbraa did not dare to pass Audur’s crosses into the valley before she had strengthened herself with her magic. She went to her sacrificial house, and there she remained for a long time, under strange when she came out, she had her eyes blindfolded. A She took a chest filled with gold from the sacrificial house, and on her Lid she had a large ring attached, which was in the door of the sacrificial house, mounted his horse and rode With the chest in front of it by holding the ring while while her servant led the horse by the bridle. She forbade her people to to look at the slope. Horse on the reins through the Kreuzkluft, unexpectedly the slope He stood there for a while, and as it was difficult, to get through the gap and Guldbraa urged the horse eagerly, she stumbled. The chest fell down in front of her, while Guldbraa only kept the ring in her hand. This frightened her so much that she tore the blindfold from his eyes to see what had become of the chest was; but then the crosses on the edge of the rock caught her eye. Then she cried out and said that she was an unbearable light blind; she ordered her servant to hand her the chest and to ride forward with all their might. But the ring they kept had thrown it far away and said that she had long would regret having taken him with me. »I can see that now,« she said, "that the ring is intended for the things that my thoughts are most repugnant."

Guldbraa continued her ride. But when she saw a small Piece away from the gap, she got so violent Eye pain that when she reached Guldbraa's Hill, she saw the had lost her sight. She stayed there for a short time, blind and under many annoyance until they are in a heavy one Illness struck. Then she called her servants to her and ordered them to bring them to a ravine into which they slide wanted to leave. and the ringing of the bells would never be heard. In this gorge but a waterfall falls towards the north, and under it is a Cave. The gorge is dizzyingly deep, and the waterfall is noisy and roars down there.

Guldbraa went into the cave and lay down on the gold. When she in the waterfall had become a ghost, she destroyed a farm on Guldbraa's Hill; when it began to get dark, neither men, nor animals keep their lives there on the hill or on the slope, and the shepherds later believed they noticed ghosts there. But all ghostly mischief stopped as soon as a church was built in Hvam Now the place where Guldbraa was taken is Called Guldbraas Gorge and Guldbraas Fall.

The ring from the door of the sacrifice is still on the Church door to Hvam. is strongly worn out; Copper plate on which two men in armor are depicted in raised work With the helmet on the head and the sword on the side and with a short time armor. One drives a spear into the other’s The chest that comes out again on the back.

It is told in the legend of Christianity and in several places that the priest Thangbrand, when he was traveling in the Westfjords, also to Hvam came. His sermon found only reluctant ears. The housewife did not come out, but stayed inside and sacrificed while her son Skegge meanwhile Thangbrand and his men mocked.

It is said that this Skegge lived for a long time in Hvam and strengthened the pagan faith. He was a magician himself and a heathen from head to toe, just like his mother. But still he was not so great a wizard that he could overcome Guldbraa’s haunting She often killed the shepherds and the cattle when she returned to Guldbraas Hills came. Skegge did not like that, even less when he always wanted to get Guldbraa's chest out of the waterfall to get up. than with her, the dead spirit.

One day, when the weather was fine, he went out equipped to Guldbraa's case to get in. began to get dark before he reached the waterfall. Two servants, who were supposed to hold the ropes accompanied him. Skegge slipped into the Fall in, and it was not long before the servants had a strong Rumbling, thundering and other noises; it sounded as if a heavy fight was taking place under the waterfall; they were scared to death, and it would not have taken much for her to run away but Skegge gave them a sign to loosen the ropes should pull up. the protruding edge of the ravine, they found themselves involuntarily, and it seemed to them as if the whole valley stood still until down to Hvam in bright flames, so that the flames spread from Fels spread to rock. Knitting continued, and the chest fell back into the case. descended the hill, they saw nothing unusual, Nevertheless, they only stopped running when they were the house had reached. was blue and bloody. He carried a large cauldron filled with gold on his arm; he had filled it with gold from Guldbraa's chest, and he Had his hands out of the gorge. Between Guldbraa and Skegge was hard and long, but Guldbraas was He had not been able to destroy ghostly creatures, for never It was as bad as after this time. Shepherd after shepherd, and finally he could no longer find anyone but Get cattle shepherds;

Skegge was no longer the same after his visit to the gorge; Both the consequences of the struggle and the death of his shepherds packed him so badly that he had to go to bed. But when it came to had come to the point where no one could be persuaded to look after the cattle, Skegge got up one day and went to his sheep. Day and night passed without Skegge returning, but late the next day he came home, more dead than alive, for no one had dared to look for him To see. Spuk would no longer do any damage that he himself would do it himself must follow. He then went back to bed and did not get up again on. be used to purchase church building materials so that a church could be built in Hvam. climbed into the waterfall and wrestled with Guldbraa, his friend Thor made a promise; deceived; but the last time, when he was in even greater danger, promised to donate money to build a church to build in Hvam if he was saved from Guldbraa's claws. A strong flame would have flashed in her eyes, and before he could If she had known the word, she would have turned to stone down there in the ravine. And even today the ghost can be seen in Guldbraa’s case.

Nevertheless, Skegge did not want to convert or next to that Church at Hvam; however, he ordered that he be buried in a hill on the northern side of the Heimacker. This was done, and Guldbraa's chest was placed under his head. There is still a large stone, which is called the Skeggestein. The valley, after where it is directed is called the Skeggetal, and Guldbraas Hill lies towards the south in this valley.