
The Farmer Of Gnupar
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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
The Farmer Of Gnupar: rural life, resilience, hardship, cunning, fate, community
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The Farmer Of Gnupar
A farmer on Gnupar in Syssel Thingö once dreamed that a woman came to him and complained that his children were throwing stones into a inland lake nearby and thereby scare away the trout, from which she had to live. But the farmer did not care about her Complaints and found that it was not necessary to seriously explain to the children their Nonsense to prohibit them; as they had done before. Then the same woman came to the second time to the farmer in his sleep and threatened him with her revenge.
The next winter, one evening, all the Windows in the yard were smashed. The farmer rushed out to To see who would have played this prank; The freshly fallen snow showed neither traces of humans nor of animals.
Another time, the light that stood on the table was illuminated by wiped out of a human hand without a person being seen. A girl went out into the kitchen to turn the light back on, However, she couldn't get the fire on the stove three times. she tried to light it, and every three times the light Finally, the farmer himself came out. and after much effort he succeeded in getting the light to burn.
Once the farmer was given a pair of heavy and thick shoes by a invisible hand at his head; he became angry and threw the Shoes back in the same direction from which they had come; but they were thrown back into his face with double speed thrown.
Finally, people became so scared of these visitations Disclosure that the farmer continued with everything he belonged to by the court, which was no longer inhabited by this time.
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