The Brothers (2)

In the valleys lived two brothers, Thord and Andreas, the sons Andreas', who, as it seemed to the people, both had a hot temper In the winter of 1820 they went to Hjallasand to fish to catch. They had then reached the age of manhood, but were still unmarried. Both were in love with the same girl, and this circumstance destroyed the brotherly relationship between them.

Early in the winter, the boat carrying Andreas was shipwrecked, and he went down with him. Now his brother got a freer hand for his Courtship, which he was very happy about, and he visited the girl more openly, than he had done before.

Some time passed without anything happening. But one evening Thord walked alone in the darkness along the path from Ingjaldshol, and when he arrived in Hjallasand, not far from his hut, Storedumpa, had come and was about to go to the door of the booth, he saw that a man came up from the boat and wanted to stand in his way. Thord hurried to the door, and the other man was right on his heels. Thord looked at the man and recognized his brother Andreas; He was horrified, stormed into the booth and up to the floor, but forgot to close the door behind him. On the floor of the booth The beds were arranged in such a way that at one end the bed of farmer Thomas, at the opposite end a bed for three fishermen, while Thord's bed was in the middle of the side wall opposite the stairs. When Thord got to the ground, it was dark, and the people slept in the darkness. The farmer Thomas woke up from their steps. Thord sat down on his bed, and just as When he sat down, Thomas heard him say: »Do you think that I afraid to look you in the eyes?' But at the same moment A terrible tumult arose, and Thord flew like a shot Ball to the fishermen's bed, over them and at the wall and they woke up from a bad dream. In the blink of an eye but the ghost took Thord with him and dragged him along the floor and down the ladder. Farmer Thomas lit a light and asked the Fisherman to help Thord, who was in such a bad way, and they ran all with him from the ground. Then the ghost fled, but Thord lay like dead down in the corridor and swimming in his blood. They picked him up and carried him to his bed, watched over him all night and cared for him him with great care. His body was badly mutilated, blue and swollen, and he did not come out before dawn the next morning He was ill for a long time, but finally recovered, in But Winter had to leave his light burning every night so that the ghost should not come back.

The next winter, a few fishermen took up residence in Thomas’s hut in Dumpa services. One of them was called Sigurd Sigurdsson and came from Bredevig in the Barderstran district. He was 21 years old and for such a young man tall in stature and possessed of good strength. He received the Bed that stood at one end of the floor, and in it was still a fisherman is assigned a place.

A little later Thord Andreasson arrived, and Thomas then asked Sigurd to take him as bedfellows for the winter. Sigurd, who did not know what had happened last winter, fulfilled the farmer’s wish gladly, and when they went to bed, Sigurd lay outside, but Thord at the wall. But when they had fallen asleep, Sigurd dreamed that a man came to him with a frightening appearance and said: »I will punish you for this reward you for lying before my brother, so that I may not come near him can come.« »What do you want from him?« asked Sigurd. »I want him murder," said the other. "Ah, I see," said Sigurd, "you want to go on nothing from him?' Then it seemed to Sigurd as if the other was attacking him; They grabbed each other, and the end was that the attacker fell. Sigurd woke up and then crawled on all fours on the floor in front of the bed along.

The next night Sigurd dreamed exactly the same thing; however, it seemed to him this time it will be more difficult than yesterday to overcome the ghost, and this fight ended in such a way that Sigurd awoke to find that his Bedmates held him close to the hatch. They had believed that he was sleepwalking and wanted to prevent him from doing so.

The third night Sigurd dreamed that he was standing by the boat down by the water, and that the same man would come and attack him with great anger; and they wrestled with each other for a long time, but Sigurd finally carried the Victory; he dreamed that he killed the ghost, whereupon he sword in his hand and cut his opponent to pieces. And so the ghost stopped its attacks.

Sigurd stayed in Dumpa during the winter and slept next to Thord, and never After this time he dreamed of his opponent, who had spent the whole Throughout the winter, his brother Thord suffered no harm from his haunting inflicted.

Many years later, Thord and Sigurd met and spoke by the ghost. It had never attacked Thord again since Sigurd had defeated it. Thord outlived his brother Andreas by about 20 years, but he never reached the Bude regained his old strength. He later went through the ice on Hvidaa fell into the Borgarfjord and drowned. He was on a trip to the Southland, where he went fishing, and led three horses and their packs with him, all of which drowned with him.