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sounding voice. He knew all the particulars
about the place, and about former days, as if
they had been of yesterday.
"Here, on the rocky holms," said he, "it
was that the warriors in the heathen rimes, as
they are called, decided their disputes. The
warrior Stärkodder dwelt in this district, and
liked the pretty girl Ogn right well; but she
was fonder of Hergrimmer, and therefore he
was challenged by Stärkodder to combat here
by the falls, and met his death; but Ogn sprung
towards them, took her bridegroom’s bloody
sword, and thrust it into her own heart. Thus
Stärkodder did not gain her. Then there passed
a hundred years, and again a hundred years: the
forests were then thick and closely grown;
wolves and bears prowled here summer and
winter; the place was infested with malignant
robbers, whose hiding-place no one could find.
It was yonder, by the fall before Top Island,
on the Norwegian side – there was their cave:
now it has fallen in! The cliff there
overhangs it!"
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