The South Driver-Asmund

A man was called Asmund. His family came from the Skagefjord. A He was a nimble man and capable of any work, and at the time of this He was about twenty years old. Every winter, Asmund southward, as he was wont to do, and his companions followed him. They spent the night on Melar in Hrutafjord, from where they The next morning they planned to ride up to the heath. During the night but Asmund fell into a serious illness, and his companions waited for him all day. Asmund said that they would move on They would follow. So they left, but Asmund stayed behind.

The following day, Asmund was completely healthy again, and therefore He got up. The weather was fine, but when he came south and in the middle on the heath, a heavy snowfall arose, and Asmund saw where he was riding. He lost his way, and when he noticed this, he took the bundles from his horses and dug himself into a snowdrift and used his bundles as a door for the snow hut. The horses coupled Then he went into the snow hut, which he had found on the leeward side had dug a hole to watch the weather. Then he took out his travel food and started to eat. But just as he had started his meal, a peat-brown dog came to the hole in the snow hut and dug through. The dog looked very aggressive and angry, but with every bite that Asmund swallowed, he became even The dog began to displease Asmund, and he fetched a leg bone from a very large sheep and gave it to him. The dog took the bone and immediately ran outside with it. After a A while later a tall, elderly man came to the door of the Schneehütte.

»Or are you not the Southerman Asmund?« asked the stranger. »That is what me, «replied asmund. to choose," said the man, "either you follow me, or the storm Don't calm down before you are dead. I am who conjured up the storm and I'm about it to blame for you getting sick, because I wanted to talk to you, because I know no more capable and courageous man than you.« Asmund it got hot for the ears, and he understood that only one thing is to do here was whether it was right for him or not. pull him when his life wanted to let the Snowewe.

"Then come with me," said the man. Asmund then set off with him; the The snow had stopped and the weather had become nice. The Man went ahead, but Asmund followed him with the horses. Which way he went, he did not know, so misled had he been. When she After walking straight ahead for a while, they came to a small valley. Bach ran in the middle of the valley, and Asmund was amazed that the earth on one side of the stream was red, while on the other side Every spot was white from the snow. a yard They went to the house that was on the snow-covered side Lying. Then he led Asmund into the house and into the bathhouse. Here he saw Asmund an old woman and a young, rather pretty girl, others But he didn't see people after he greeted them Old man offered a seat. But after a little while had passed, they went out, the old man and the girl, and Asmund and the woman were left alone. The old woman sat there the whole time and murmured quietly to itself: "It is a right -wing misery - without being tobacco." Asmund took a piece of tobacco out of his pocket and threw it to the old one. She caught it and was happy about the gift.

Then they came in, the old and the girl, and they brought Asmund something to eat. Asmund ate, and the old man stood by the and was very happy. out again, followed by the old man. Now Asmund believed that They discussed how they could kill him. Soon after, the Old back and asked asmund to calm down. gladly, and the old man led him into a chamber in which an uncovered Bed stood. but Asmund took off his wet clothes. When she saw his stockings and shoes to carry them away, he asked her not to do that, because he feared that the girl said that there was no danger involved, because nobody wanted to harm him Add it.

Asmund seemed to be disappointed by the treatment he received in the Peaceless Man’s house. strange, and he was not entirely free from a certain liking for to find the girl's kiss. that the old man was standing next to him.

It was a brightness day. wanted to ask him now about the matter for which he had brought him here »The situation is like this,« said the old man, »that I twenty years ago, I lived in the residential area; then I got a Child with my sister, so I had to flee and pull here. The old woman that you saw yesterday is my sister, But the child we had together is the young girl who helped you undress when you went to bed. When I came here, there were already peaceless people living in the house that you saw last night beyond the stream. two men who still live on the farm today. They told me always proven enmity, but I always have to defend myself until now. Now I can't anymore, and now I have to superiority because they can control all the snow that falls into the valley. Leave on my side of the stream. have been my sheep in her country, beyond the stream, graze too Leave, but now I'm not a man to do. I would like to ask you to cross the stream with my sheep today. go and be careful there. But you also need that, because my two enemies will come, in The assumption that I am at the herd. Having dogs with you, and it will be a good help for you. "

Asmund left the bed and continued with the sheep, but the old one gave him his coat for clinging and a hatchet so that he was his skin. As soon as Asmund had crossed the stream, The peaceless towards him and said: "Now he is of death!" They thought the old man was with his sheep. But when they Asmund approached, they said: "It is different than we thought," whereupon they jumped on Asmund and attacked him. Asmund incited the Brown on one of them, but attacked the other one himself. The Braune tore his opponent apart and then ran against the other, and so Defined him in the club, Asmund and the dog. evening with the sheep, then he went home and met the old man AN. He would have watched him as he was about to kill the peaceless Kill, he said.

The following day Asmund and the old man went across the stream to the another farm that was a good and spacious place to live. People met them only a lot of cattle. the whole house. Then they came across a door that they could not open Asmund threw herself against them. In a small secondary chamber in which she is a graceful and beautiful maid She was tied to a beam by her hair and was very pale and thin. Asmund freed her and asked where she came from. She said that she was an Oefjord farmer's daughter and that the Friedlos would have stolen them. To get married, she said. they tied them up here and thought that this way they would make them submissive and take one of them. Asmund told Then you, like the thing, and that you are good in your hands people; but she was happy to have overcome all danger.

They now brought everything from the old man of the old one after this Hof and stayed here over the winter. Asmund liked the old man and the girls, especially the daughter of the old. various arts and crafts by the girl from Oefjord. In spring the old man said to Asmund that he should now move to his homeland; In autumn, however, he should return to the valley, because then he would died, he said. Then he wanted to ask him to daughter and his sister, if she was still alive, And also the girl from the Oefjord. He said that whatever he could find would be his dowry. Asmund north to the Skagefjord. People looked at him as if he was he rose from death; he didn't tell anyone.

In the autumn he left again and came to the girls in the valley. They were happy were very happy about his coming, because the two old men had fallen asleep, and the girls had buried them under a hill on the slope. Asmund stayed with them over the winter. But in the spring he left with the whole Moving from the hut, after the SkaFefjord. settled down and married the old man's daughter, the Oefjord girl but he married a man from the surrounding area.

And here ends the story of the South Traveler Asmund.