
The Night Troll
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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
The Night Troll: darkness, menace, wilderness, hidden beings, fear, survival
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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The Night Troll
Lived at the summer pasture spaces that belonged to the farmers of the Mygsee In ancient times, a giantess lived in a mountain that was named after her »The Tail the Giantess. She was one of the night trolls whose nature it is to that they cannot tolerate the sun and therefore always have to work at night.
This giantess caused a lot of damage to the inhabitants, among other things by stealing the fish from Lake Myg at night. It is said that that she rowed around in a small boat, which she then put on the back home. One summer they were lucky while fishing in beach vig, which, as later, also the best fish place on Mygsee. During the summer, the giantess made it her habit to to steal fish in the bay every night, and that pleased the Beach dwellers very little. One night, late in the summer, she went down to the lake to fish in it, as she was accustomed to. But when she came down, she saw a farmer in the bay who was She was busy fishing. She thought she was not strong enough to to attack a farmer who was with three others and wanted therefore wait until he had finished fishing; but the farmer stayed where he was, perhaps because he knew what was going on with the giantess was ordered when it was time for dawn. The giantess began to become impatient, but did not want to leave the task unfinished. home. Finally the farmer stopped fishing, and the Giantess went down and pulled nets into the bay. When she Work was finished, she made her way home when she The sun opened, and it opened, and it It is now said that she put her boat down at the place where she was just at sunrise, whereupon everything in stone was transformed.
The traces of this are still clearly visible today. The boat still stands on a hill that is in the middle of the »tail of the Giantess" and the Mygsee and has been called the "Boat Hill" ever since. The Boot is well built like the boats that are now used on the Mygsee the only difference being that it is larger. One can clearly see its entire shape, and you can still see the oars, and where they were sitting, and that for this purpose cuts were made on the sides of the boat were used and not the rowing pins that are currently in use. There is a large pile in the stern of the boat, and you Believe that the giant laid down here for the last rest.
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