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Updated: June 8, 2025
Just as he said this, the water within the skerries all at once became quite smooth, and the parson's boat drove high and dry upon the sandbank, so that the mast cracked. I.e., at nothing a house having usually only four walls. See "The Fisherman and the Draug." See "The Fisherman and the Draug." There was once a skipper of Dyrevig called Bardun.
"But the right to rule lies in my rudder," thought Bardun to himself. Then the magistrates summoned him before the tribunal. Bardun simply whistled contemptuously. At last matters came to such a pitch that the magistrates sailed forth to seize him in the midst of a howling tempest, and down they went in the Finmark seas.
But when the next governor was sent up to Finmark, it was only the keel of the king's ship that came drifting in from the sea. At last nobody would venture thither to certain ruin, and Bardun was left alone, and ruled over all. Then so mighty was he in all Finmark that he reigned there like the king himself. Now he had but one child, and that a daughter.
If there was anything nobody else dared do, Bardun was the man to do it. And, absurd and desperate as the venture might be, he always succeeded, so that folks were always talking about him. Now, right out at sea, beyond the skerries, lay a large rock, the lair of wild-fowl, whither the merchant who owned it came every year to bring away rich loads of eider-down.
He who is with thee shall thrive, and he who is against thee shall suffer shipwreck and be lost. For 'tis I who am in the windy gusts." Then all at once everything was quite still; but down on the sea below there swept a heavy squall. There stood Bardun with the rudder in his hand, and he understood that it was not a thing to be lightly cast away.
Then Bardun smote his head against the wall, and that night he laughed, so that it was heard far away, but he wept for his daughter. And now there arose such a storm that the sea was white for a whole week. And it was not long before the tidings came that the ship that Boel and her husband had sailed by had gone down, and the splinters lay and floated among the skerries.
His garments were stiff with gold, and shone and sparkled wherever he went. Bardun received him well, and helped him to carry out the king's commands.
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