The Groom And The Ghost

Four men were once digging a grave; some say, that it was in the churchyard of Reykholar. They were all funny People, but one of them was the most cocky of all. When As the grave began to get deeper, a lot of human bones came to the and underneath a thigh that resembles an enormous man. The most cocky of the digging men took the thigh bone in his hand, examined it closely and measured it against his own thigh, and the legend says that he cut him from the sole of his foot to to his hips, although he was a man of medium height. He said jokingly: »I cannot be mistaken that this man is a was a good wrestler and it would be fun to have him as a guest to have when I celebrate my wedding. The others gave him right, but they said nothing more about it. Then the man put the femur to the other bones.

Now, it is only five years later that something is reported again, when this young man got engaged to a girl and already the second The banns had taken place. His bride dreamed three nights one after the other that a terribly tall man would come to her bed and She asked if her fiancé remembered what he had done a few years ago in high spirits, and on the last night he added that he would not miss the opportunity to have him as a dinner guest at the wedding. The girl did not answer, but She felt uneasy in her sleep when she heard this and saw how how tall the man was. She did not tell her bridegroom her dreams until until she had dreamed of the man three times. Then in the morning she said to him: »Who did you think to invite to our wedding, my "I don't know yet, my dear," he replied, "I have I didn't think about it yet, I wanted to finish the three summons first "Have you not invited anyone yet?" she asked. He replied that, as far as he could remember, he had not done that but he began to think, and it seemed strange to him that she asked him so eagerly. After some thought, he said that he certainly hadn’t invited anyone yet; however, he had a few years ago, in jest, to the thigh bone of a deceased man, who had been dug out of a grave, said that it was probably fun would be to have such a tall man as a guest, if he should celebrate his wedding one day, but that is not why one could claim that he had invited someone. His bride was Something seriously and said that such jokes were not appropriate would be the most with the bones of the there. I can tell you that the person you were playing this joke with surely has serious intentions to be a guest at our wedding appear. ”And then she told him all of her dreams and which one Threats the great man had made last night. About All of this was horrified by her groom and said that she is right in it would have thought that it would have been better if his mouth had been filled with such Would have been silent.

In the evening he went to bed, as always, but at night it seemed to him when There came a huge man who looked like a giant and a unfriendly and harsh appearance, to him and asked if he Now would be willing to promise that he would give him five years ago to have him as a dinner guest at his wedding The groom was horrified and replied that it was The other said that he could not change whether he now liked it or not, and that it was completely superfluous, to deal with his bones, and that it would be quite good for him, if he now felt what that would mean. Then he left the ghost, but he slept until morning and told his Bride then told him what he had dreamed and asked her for some good advice. She said that he would get carpenters and lumber and then in great haste should have a house performed, which fits the size of the man, the had visited them both in a dream, so that he could stand upright, but inside each wall should be as long as it reaches the Is high, then it should hang ceilings as to how to to decorate another wedding hall; he should have a white Keep over the table of this guest, width, consecrated earth on a Have the plate and water brought in a bottle, because other dishes he would not enjoy; to be brought in if he should feel like resting; He should put three candles on his table, and he himself must Accompany there, but take care of it, to go ahead, and Above all, that he is not with him under one roof. he shouldn't accept an invitation from him if he comes with it and he should talk to him as little as possible, but the door and then leave him when he has served him the The groom now behaved exactly as had prescribed his bride, left a free -standing house of perform the right size and set up everything as already told has been.

Now the day of the feast was approaching, and the wedding was held in the usual Then they sat down at the table, and when it was dark had become, everyone got up from the table again without anything Something special happened. Then some wedding guests went into the wedding hall up and down, others sat by the cups and chatted. The The bride and groom were still sitting quietly, as is customary. Then a hard Knock on the door, but nobody was particularly keen to open it. The bride gently tugged at her groom, who lay like a corpse in the face looked like this. A little while passed, then the The door tapped, and this time much louder than the previous time. The bride took her bridegroom by the hand and led him, although he to the door and opened it. There they saw a terribly large Man who said that he had come as a wedding guest. The bride gently pushed her bridegroom out of the wedding house so that he Received this guest, and by locking the door again, she asked God to strengthen him.

But it is to be reported of the bridegroom that he with this man went to the house that he had had built for him and The guest wanted the bridegroom to go first, but He did not want to. The end result was that the stranger went ahead into the House and said that from that moment the bridegroom on guard should ever be with the bones of a dead man again The bridegroom pretended not to hear this, but asked the Guest to do himself amiciously at the meticulated dishes and not him to resent him for not being able to stay with him. The other, however, asked the bridegroom to finally come in for a moment; that was But the bridegroom certainly did not. Then the ghost said: “Since you don't have time to stay with me or come in, hope I hope that you will give me the pleasure of returning the favor to me as The groom, however, firmly refused and locked the door. which it was pretty quiet because everyone was in this event Only the bride sitting with a lively face. gradually moved away, one after the other. The couple, however, went to rest and slept until morning.

In the morning the farmer wanted to see the guest who had the evening before the bride said last. there until she came with him. They both went to the house, they forward, and he opened; there was no trace of the guest; He had emptied the bottle, but the earth from the plate on everywhere the soil. "I guessed that," said the woman you went to the house and you would have with your foot in this If you had stepped on the ground, you would have fallen into the power of the ghost and You could never have returned to the human world. Nothing when I step in, and now I'll sweep the house and now clean."

Others tell that the ghost than it wanted to go back to the door had gone, either from the wedding house itself or from the couple's bedroom and sang:

»You don’t deserve my thanks!
For the feast on the table;
My drink was fresh water,
My food is earth and clay."

From that day on, it no longer visited these people, and they lived long in love and happiness together.