The Woman From Malmö

It is said that the curse on the Malmö farm was in the SkaFefjord, that nobody can endure there for more than twenty years.

At the time of the pastor Halvdan Einarsson, a Farmer, named Jon. As a young man he had settled in Malmö settled down and never farmed another farm, and now the twenty years during which he could stay there without danger could; but since he was a brave man and not very superstitious, and since he also inherited the farm from his father and always had good days he did not want to leave him, and the twenty-first Year passed until shortly before Christmas without something strange happened.

On the day before Christmas Eve, however, the Malmö wife disappeared without anyone could discover where she had gone, although one could Farmer Jon took this to heart and wanted to To find out how his wife’s disappearance came about He therefore went to see Pastor Halvdan in Fell, and when he Once there was, he wished to speak the pastor, and then he told him his troubles. The priest said that he had already told him could what would have become of his wife and where she stayed, it But it would be of no use to him to know this, because from now on he would no longer have any joy with his wife. The farmer asked if he Set up so that he could see his wife. my mind would be relieved if I could see and experience them where she is," he said. The priest replied that he Please do not gladly fulfill, but he must do it anyway, since he is so Therefore Bäte, and he determined that he will come back on the day and the day when everyone had gone to bed. Then the farmer returned back home and found that things are now a better turn would have taken for him.

When he arrived in Fell on the appointed day, the priest was already equipped and ready to travel. The farmer saw a grey, bridled horse north of the churchyard; the priest went to it, climbed it and ordered the farmer to sit behind him. »But beware, a to speak a single word," said the priest, "whatever you see get, and what happens; it your life! ”The pastor now rode away from the farmers, and he was amazed at the rapid pace in which the horse rushed along. They took the shortest route outside Daletaa and Sigtunäs and headed straight for Olafsfjordsmule; the farmer was something wonderfully thinks, and once when there is a jerk in that horses and ducked low, he was frightened and let out a scream Then the priest shouted loudly: »We have touched a rock, But now the mouth, «and that has been a phrase since that day Becomed when horses stumble and lose their hold further mention of their ride until they reached the north of Olafsfjordsmule land, to the mighty and steep rocks that are there. The The priest and the farmer dismounted, whereupon the priest went to the mountain and took out a small staff with which he struck the mountain.

After a while the mountain opened and two steps out blue-clad women of grace, who led Jon's wife between them. They had become completely unrecognizable and no longer resembled herself. Her Face was bloated and blue, and that was her whole appearance One troll wife; original skin color, and Pastor Halvdan later explained, when asked about it, that this was the only sign that would have kept her from her previous existence.

When the woman came out of the mountain, she said, "So you are come here, Jon. What do you want?« The farmer had become silent, But the priest asked him if he wanted to take his wife back with him, or if he had anything else to say to her; to which the Farmer "No." The priest then ordered the women back into the mountain in, locked it behind them and pushed the door properly into the opening so that these women can no longer give anyone any But later, Father Halvdan himself said that he had not plugged all the cracks, because he had never intended to prevent anyone from entering, but rather someone would come out. From this time on, the place on the north side the Olafsfjordsmule, where Pastor Halvdan unlocked the mountain, Halvdanstor Trustworthy people say that it is red in color, and that it does not look like the rest of the mountain, and that especially at the bottom there are quite large cracks, namely those where the Pastor didn't want to do anything.

The farmer and the priest returned the same way they had come were back and reached Fell before the people got up They dismounted, north of the churchyard, at the same Place where they had mounted, and the priest bridled the Grauchen. But when he had taken off the bridle, he struck He hit him on the loins with it; the grey man became angry and struck with the hind foot at the priest, but the priest jumped aside, and the The blow hit the churchyard fence, in which an opening through the Horse hoof was created, which, according to people, you never have again put in order, no matter how one has tried to fill them.

It is also said that from this day nobody in Malmö misfortune; but no one dared to stay longer than to live there for twenty years.