The Oskorei Fetch a Dead Man

Collected by Kjetil A. Flatin in Tussar og trolldom (1930).
O n Aase in Flatdal, they were drinking and carousing one evening around Christmastime. Two men strapped themselves together with a belt and fought with knives. One of the men was stabbed and lay dead on the floor. Then the oskorei came riding in thrtough the door, took the dead man with them, and threw a firebrand on the floor.

They left some reins behind on the attic floor. The reins have been kept at Aase ever since.

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