Sigurd And The Ghost

Sigurd and the Ghost


On a farm there lived a farmer who had a son named Sigurd. Everyone thought the son was a strange character; He was not very popular, but he was also such a paragon that no Was with him.

Once a man named Sigurd came to this farm and told the farmer asked to stay there over the winter and permission to The stranger could do nothing more than play the harp play. The two namesakes became such good friends that the The farmer's son did not like to stay anywhere else than with the stranger.

The winter passed, and in the spring the winter guest left again. After leaving the house, the farmer’s son was bored everywhere, so that he could not stay anywhere, and in the autumn he moved to search for Sigurd. He went to every farm, from village to village to village, from Syssel to Syssel and asked everywhere about his namesake Sigurd. Finally he came to a parsonage where he also asked about his namesake. Nobody knew anything about him, so much but he was told that recently a man named Sigurd arrived, but he had just died. He asked where he was. He was told that he was lying outside in the kitchen and that he was in the coffin would have been placed. He asked to go there and After he had received permission, he stayed all night sitting at the coffin. During the night the dead Sigurd rose from the coffin, went out and stayed away for a long time. Sigurd, the farmer’s son, sat Meanwhile at the coffin.

It happened that the pastor's wife had recently given birth to a child on the farm Towards morning the ghost came again and wanted to go into the coffin. The farmer's son said that it should not be done if it did not tell me what I was up to. »I was playing with my money,« said the ghost. "And now I want to go back into my coffin," continued it away. "Not until you tell me where the money is," said Sigurd. »You will not find out,« said the ghost. »Then you will come nor in the coffin," replied Sigurd. Then the ghost told that it was under the corner in the bathroom. »How much is it?« asked Sigurd. »A bushel,« replied the ghost. »Have you nothing else "What did you intend to do?" asked Sigurd. "No," answered the ghost. "You have "You will surely have done more," said Sigurd. "You will not come in the coffin until you told me. »I told the pastor's wife killed," said the ghost. "Why did you do that?" asked Sigurd. "I wanted to be her friend when she was still alive," said the ghost, »But she didn't want to.« »How did you do that?« asked Sigurd. »I have taken all the life that was in her into the little finger in it," replied the ghost. "Can't she be brought back to life?' asked Sigurd. 'Yes,' answered the Ghost, »when the string I tied around her little finger is removed so carefully that no blood flows. But now I want I went into the coffin," said the ghost.

»Not until you promise me never to come out of the coffin again. "I want to get into the coffin," said the Ghost. "Promise me the other thing first," replied Sigurd. The end The story was that the ghost promised never to come out of his coffin To get up. again.

In the morning Sigurd came to the farm and found the people in great sorrow He asked what was wrong with them and they told him that the wife of the pastor had died during the night. He asked for permission to see her and he was shown where it was. He untied the string on the little finger of the pastor's wife and stroked her whole body until she gradually revived. Trade with the ghost and showed him the money to reveal the truth of his He was now honored by the priest who took him into his service and, as is said, is said to have made a very efficient man out of him, and it is told that Sigurd always behaved well from that day on.

And so this story ends.