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The Night-Troll
The farm people were greatly distressed over this, and there were few who
wanted to stay home on that particular night. One Christmas, however, a young girl volunteered, and that was a relief to the other members of the household.After they left, the girl sat on a dais in the badstofa (living room), singing to a baby she held in her arms. As the night wore on, she heard someone at the window, saying:
"What a pretty hand you have,
my quick on, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
my quick on, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
The girl answered:
"It has never raked the muck,
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
The one at the window said:
"What a pretty eye you have,
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
And the girls shot back:
"Never has it evil seen,
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
The answer came from the window:
"What a pretty foot you have,
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
To which the girl replied:
"It has never trod in filth,
my prowler, my Kari, and carry-roe."
my prowler, my Kari, and carry-roe."
From the voice at the window came:
"Day is dawning in the east,
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
my quick one, my keen one, and diddly-doe."
And the girl within retorded:
"Stay and turn to stone,
but be of harm to no one,
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
but be of harm to no one,
my prowler, my Kari, and corry-roe."
Then the being disappeared from the window.
In the morning, when the farm people returned, a huge boulder was found in the alley between the farmhouses, and it has remained there ever since.
The girls recounted everything that had happened during the night. It appeared that it had been a night-troll that spoke to here through the window.
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