Wisdom Giantess and chess There lived a giantess in a cave in one of the mountains. She was busy robbing people in the neighborhood. There lived a prominent woman nearby, and she had her only son. She had a very beautiful ches... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Ghost and tobacco pouch One day a man died on a farm. He was a smoker and left behind some tobacco in his pouch. An old woman lived on this farm. She loved to snuff tobacco. She took the tobacco pouch and in the evening, goi... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Shepherd from Grimstunga In Grimstung there lived a shepherd, smart and hard-working. Once he was missing sheep, went to look for them in the wasteland and found them, but at the same time he saw a skessa troll running toward... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Skessa from Nattfari Bay In the old days, there was a fishing place in the Nattfari Bay near the Kholodnaya Shcheka farm. They say that one day some fishermen went there to fish; it is not known how many there were, but of al... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Bishop Gottskaulk the Cruel Bishop Gottskaulk the Cruel was the greatest sorcerer of his era. He again mastered black magic, which had not been used since pagan times, and wrote a book called “Red Skin.” It was written in golden... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom About Master Illhugi At the same time, two masters lived in Episcopal Mesopotamia, whose skills were very different from each other. One of them was the bond Eirik Melkjörsson from Bergov Dvor. He made a model of the sola... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Ghost at work Once upon a time in the Western Fjords there lived newlyweds who loved each other very much. The husband fished and was a good sailor. One morning his wife looked at the weather and asked her husband ... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Ioun of the Rookeries A worker from the Western Rookeries, whose name was Jón Johannesson, went on a journey to Wide Bay. He was lightly dressed, but while he was in the bay he was caught in bad weather. He asked the bondm... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Seal skin One day in the east, in Myrdal, a man was walking along the rocks on the seashore, early in the morning, when everyone was still sleeping. Approaching a grotto, he heard people dancing there, and outs... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Hildur - Queen of the Aulvas There once lived a peasant in the mountains, but what his name was and the name of his farm is unknown. The peasant was single, and his farm was run by a woman named Hildur; no one knew anything about... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom Tyungystapi In ancient times, many centuries ago, there lived a rich peasant in Sailingsdalstüng. He had several children and this story talks about his two sons. Since their names are unknown, we will call them ... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
Wisdom The Tale of Grim from the West Fjords In Skrid, where a monastery was later built, there lived a man named Sigurd, his wife’s name was Helga. They had a son, Grim, who was raised in the West Fjords by his maternal uncle. At that time, on ... Fairy Tales Icelandic Fairy Tales
