Word: bendek
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...little Odin is taken by his mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna...
...Bendek, besides being a real man, is also something of a thief. Odin can put up with his stealing fish from other folks' nets, but when Bendek impounds a neighbor's ram to slaughter it, Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers...
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