Northern mythology

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118 DANISH TRADITIONS.
In Laanehoi on ^ro the Troll-folk may frequently be
heard slamming their coffer-Uds. Some harvest-people
once sitting on the mount at their repast, heard, by placing
their ear to the earth, that they were grinding corn in it.
That Mount-folk formerly dwelt in Gallehoi on iEro
there can hardly be entertained a doubt; for not only
have people heard them slam their coffer-lids, but the
smith in Lille-Rise, who in the war time kept watch there,
heard every morning a clock strike five in the mount.
Near Ostrel, between Aalborg and Thisted, there is a
mount, in which there dwells an elfin smith. At night
one may plainly hear that smith's work is going on there
and in the side of the mount there is a hole, by which in
the morning slag and tiakes of iron may be found.
In the
neighbourhood of Sundby, on the isle of IVIors,
there is a mount inhabited by a Troll who is a smith.
At night one may hear when he is at work. Opposite to
this mount there is a sand-hill, where the same smith has
another workshop, whence may be heard the strokes of
ponderous hammers. At midnight he often rides through
the air from one workshop to the other, on a horse without
a head, with hammer in hand, followed by all his
apprentices and journeymen.
In the parish of Buur there are three large mounts.
one of them dwells a Troll who is a smith and has his
workshop there. At night fire may frequently be seen
issuing from the top of the mount, and, singular enough,
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