The Genre of Trolls - Doria

hans, so sku’ ’an få bitálning fy’ jiusstakan sín, o låsa’ själv gá åt tsjötsje’. Gullsmedin ji’ tíd
’an’ vast víst o tsjern’jin hun tsjíla’ óv, iutan at najn vist ’vast ’un tåo’ vejin. To gullsmedin
kom in ti’ prästin, so ståo’ dem in gåod stond o så’ på ’varáder iutan ti tal’ e åol’. Sliutligen
sá’ gullsmedin, he ’an sku’ vil’ hav bitált fy’ tem di silverjiusstakan ’an a bisteld. Prästin,
som tråodd’ ’an sku’ va’ hun di kvinnus man, som grublar (på silver o gull) huld to in veldi’
predíkan på gullsmedin, he ’an int’ sku’ grubel yvi’ silver o gull o jåodiska ríkdåomar, som
’an änto ejngang mott’ lemn’. Int’ grublar ja’ yvi’ na, annan ja’ vil’ há bitálning fy’ tem
silverjiusstakan som paståorin ha bisteld’ ti’ in viss dág,” svara’ gullsmedin. Hur’ leng’ dem
fundära’ me’ ’varáder, so merkt’ dem, he dem va’ bidreji’ båd två. Prestin bitála’ änto tan
ejn jiusstakan fy’ ti’ dejl’ skadan me’ gullsmedin. (R II 122)
11) Deceived
Once a woman went to a goldsmith and ordered a pair of new silver candlesticks for a certain
day. She said she was getting them for a priest who was going to hold a party. The
goldsmith did as she wanted and made a pair of silver candlesticks for the day she had
fixed on. When the woman had left the goldsmith, she went to the parson and asked, if
she couldn’t come to him with her husband, he was brooding, so that she thought he was
going crazy. The parson said she could come another day, that is, the very day the silver
candlesticks were supposed to be ready. That day she went to the goldsmith and asked if
the candlesticks were ready. “Yes,” the goldsmith thought and brought them out. The
woman wrapped them in a white towel and asked the goldsmith to come along to the parson
to get his payment himself. The goldsmith followed her. When they came to the
parson, she asked the goldsmith to go into his chamber, and he’d get the payment for his
candlesticks, and she pretended to go to the kitchen herself. The goldsmith went to the
place he was shown to, and the woman, she ran off, without anyone knowing where she
went. When the goldsmith came in to the parson, they stood for a good while looking at
each other without speaking a word. Finally, the goldsmith said he wanted to be paid for
the silver candlesticks he had ordered. The parson who thought he was the woman’s husband
brooding (on silver and gold) held a great sermon for the goldsmith, [saying] he
shouldn’t brood on silver and gold and earthly riches that he’d have to leave behind anyway.
[“]I’m not brooding on anything, I want payment for the silver candlesticks the pastor
has ordered for a certain day,” the goldsmith answered. When they mulled it over with
each other, they noticed they had been deceived, the both of them. The parson nevertheless
paid for one candlestick in order to share the damage with the goldsmith.
12) Löpargossen och hans katt
He va’ ejngang in fatin vänlös pojk, som hendelsevís fi’ erv óv rík slektingar, som int’ há na
brystarvingar in pängsiumu. To ’an fi’ pängan, so jig ’an neder ti’ sjön, o kasta’ altsammans
tíd, o sá’: ti åorettfädit sku’ få sjonk’ o ti rettfädit sku’ flyt’. Altihåop sank neder, so bara in
tvåstyverslant flöjt. Han di slantin tåo pojtsjin o fåor ti’ in rík herrgål o vast tär som
leöparpojk. To ’an ha’ vari’ tär najn tíd, so laga’ dem e farty’ ti’ iutlande. ’Valinda matråos
fig ta na me’ se’ fy’ ti’ få fy’yter i he di lande’ tid dem sku’ sigel. Dem sá’ allihåop he han di
leöparpojtsjin o sku’ ta na me’ se’ “Ja’ hár int’ ná ti’ ta me’ me’,” svara’ pojtsjin. “Noh ta kattun
me de’!” tykt’ kaptejnin. Han jåol so. To dem sidan kom ti’ iutlande’, so kom dem ti’
klarär’ lastin på e slott. Når kaptejnin jí’ tíd, so sprang in fy’skretsjeli’ håop me’ möss tär.
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