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The Grateful Raven

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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
The Grateful Raven: gratitude, aid, reciprocity, animal helper, reward, kindness
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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The Grateful Raven

It is said that once some farms in Vatnsdal in the Nordland were destroyed by a landslide that came from Vatnsdalberg. Among these farms was one called Guldberastad. The daughter of Farmers on Guldberastad had the habit of always eating to share her food with the court raven. When she once told him how she it was her custom to throw the food she wanted to give him to the window the raven did not want to take it. The girl was surprised and then she went out with her. The raven came close to approached her, but still did not want to take the food, although he all the time showed that he had an appetite, so that the girl followed him to the Heimacker, a short distance from the farm. But they had hardly reached there when the girl heard a loud noise heard from the top of the mountain, and suddenly a landslide came down from there; He ran past both sides of the raven and the farmer’s daughter and did not touch the spot on which they stood. On the other hand, the an avalanche swept across the farm and destroyed it with everything that was there, Lively and totem. Food that she had given him.

But the reason why the landslide did not roll over the spot, where the raven and the girl stood, was that Bishop Gudmund The saint once in his transit his tent in this place But before he left there, he dedicated the Campsite, as he often did, and therefore at this Nobody will be affected by an accident.

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