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Trunt, Trunt And The Troll In The Mountains

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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
Trunt, Trunt And The Troll In The Mountains: cunning, danger, mountains, troll, survival, wit
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Trunt, Trunt And The Troll In The Mountains

Two men were once in the mountains collecting moss. One At night they both lay in their tent. One slept, the other but lay awake. Then he saw his sleeping comrade from the tent step out; he got up and followed him, but could hardly run so fast that the distance between them decreased. The Sleeping headed up to the glaciers.

Then the other saw a giantess standing on top of a glacier Saß. chest, and in this way she charmed the man to her. He Run her arms right now, whereupon she rushed away with him.

Next year, people from his town collected Moos on the same place in the mountains; there he came to them, but was so silent and in turned away so that you could hardly get a word out of him. The People asked him who he believed in and he replied that he was in God believe.

In the second year he came again to the same people who were again in the Bergen were, but he had become so similar to a troll that they were afraid of him. However, he was asked in whom he believed; he But he gave no answer, and this time he did not stay so long with the People like in the previous year.

In the third year he came back to the people, and now he was one Real troll became and had a seemingly terrible appearance. But there was someone who dared to ask him in whom he believed, he but replied that he thought of “Trunt, Trunt and the trolls in the mountains” believe and then disappeared. From that day on he was no longer seen; but for many years nobody dared to plant moss in this place. collect.

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