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Arne Hoff
Posted 1 year ago

[...]One night, in the Gjardey Gulf, in the southern part of Finnmark, Hjorleif laid anchor, and the lads had a fire on shore, and two men went to get water from a brook that fell from a nearby outcrop. They saw a "brunnmigi" there and told Hjorleif. Then the king heats a speartip in the fire and threw it at him. The king called:

“Out the water!
Don’t wind me up.
Off home with you, thrall,
pathetic thing!
Hey wretch, I’ll send
a singeing spear.
That’ll wet
your whiskers with blood.”

When the monster shot into the cliff they got their water. But later, as they sat by the fire, the boggart answered in verse from the rock:

“She doesn’t know,
not exactly,
what awaits her,
your woman, king,
or what’ll halt
her happy days.
You’ve pleased us, Hild:
best keep your king
close to the fire.”

Then Hjorleif threw the same spear and hit the troll in the eye. [...]


This text is from the old Saga of "Half & his Heroes". The location mentioned in this chapter, The Gjardey Gulf, or "Gjømma" ( Meaning "Hiding") as we call it, is a natural bay here on our island. This bay is located near the Norwegian coastal sailing route, and was according to scholars a much used harbor during the middle ages when the sea level where around 3 meters higher than it is today. Today, due to the land uplift, only small boats can sail through the narrow strait at high tidewater since the strait to Gjømma is dry when the tide is low.

I experimented and had some fun with Bing’s ai image creator, and used keywords from this story as a basis.
Though the Sagas are imaginative, I think AI exaggerates a bit. but at the same time: The picture it generated is freakin' badass!

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