The Troll In The Rock

On Holme in Reydarfjord the pastor’s daughter once disappeared; People searched for her everywhere for a long time, but she was nowhere to be found. A pointed rock called Skrudur rises above the fjord. The People from the inhabited area tend their cattle there every autumn on the to have pasture and to pick it up again after Christmas; every year the best sheep from the flock was missing, but others were never missed.

One winter, a few fishing boats were able to complete their usual landing place; one of them headed under a rocks into the Skrudur. There the fishermen pulled the boat ashore, sat down, wet and frozen as they were, on a rocky ledge and began to sing the Marian hymn. Then the rock opened, and an unusually large man’s hand with a ring on each finger and a scarlet sleeve over the wrist appeared and gave them a large bowl full of groats, with as many Spoons in when there were people out while from inside said was: »Now it gives my wife pleasure, now it gives me no pleasure pleasure.« When the fishermen were full and revitalized by the warm porridge the bowl disappeared back into the rock. The next day Day they came ashore.

The next year at the same time the same thing happened to another Fishing boat. The fishermen sat on the rocky ledge and sang the Andrelied very quietly until the end. Then the same hand came out of the rock out with a bowl full of fatty smoked meat, and they heard that it was said: »Now it gives me pleasure, now it does not my wife's pleasure.«[3] Full, they returned to land when the Weather had calmed down.

Now a few years passed until Bishop Gudmund in the Eastland wandered around and consecrated lakes and fountains, and the snake in the waterfall under the Lager River. He was a guest on Holme. Then the Priest, also to consecrate the Skrudur: »For I have much property, and it It will be difficult for me to take it with me, and I want to tell you that you will not make further trips if you move to my area to to harm me. "

But the bishop failed to go and consecrate the rock.


Footnotes:

[3] The troll’s wife was a Christian, and therefore
she enjoyed the song of the Virgin Mary, while he
was happy to hear the song of Andre, who was a troll
was like himself.