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550 GIANTS.
sacred spring issued from the opposite cliff. 1
According
to a
Swedish account,, Olaf wished to sail through Varmeland and by
L. Vaner to Nerike, when the troll shouted to him :
Olaf replied :
kong Olaf med dit pipuga skiigg (peaky beard),
du seglar for nar min badstuguviigg (bathroom wall) !
du troll med din rak och ten
skal bli i sten
och aldrig mer gora skeppare men !
(shalt turn to stone, and never more make skipper moan) . The
giantess turned into stone, and the king erected a cross at Dalky
church in Elfdals herred. 2 The Danish rhyme is also quoted as
follows :
hor du Oluf rodeskjag,
hvi seiler du igjennem vor stueviig (through our chamber wall) ?
And:
stat du der og bliv til steen,
og (gjor) ingen dannemand (no Dane) mere til ineen !
In Norway itself the legend runs thus : The Hornelen Mountains
in Bremanger were once connected with Maroe, but are now
divided from it by a sound. Sfc. Olaf sailed up to them, and
commanded the cliffs to part and let him pass through. They
did so, but instantly a giantess leapt out of the mountain and
cried :
Olaf:
sig (see), du mand med det hvide skag (white beard),
hvi splitter du saa min klippevag ?
stat (stand) trold nu evig der i steen,
saa gjor du ei nogen mand (not any man) meer meen.
His word came to pass, and the stone figure stands yet on the
cliff (Faye 124). Olafs red beard (like those of our hero-kings
Otto and Friedrich) reminds us of Thorr the foe of giants (p. 177) ;
pipuga skagg is apparently the same as the pipskdgg, wedge-
1 Danske viser 2, 12-3. Thiele 1, 32 ;
2 Fernow s Varmeland, p. 223.
conf. Faye 118-9.
3
Nyerup s Karakteristik af Christian 4, p. 17.
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