Translated by Pat Shaw Iverson
he haug-folk? Yes--I dare say it was Our Lord who created them, too.
Eve, Adam's wife, lived a long time and had an incredible number of children,
even long after she was past the time when one has children, and at last she
became downright ashamed at having so many. So it was, once, that Our Lord
came by and looked in on Eve, and then he asked to see her children. She
brought out a whole flock, but left some behind, because she thought it
embarrassing to have so many now that she was getting to be so old. Our Lord
understood this all right, and was a little hurt, and said to Eve: "If you're
hiding children from me, then they'll be hidden from you!"Then Eve could not see these children any longer. They were turned into haug-folk and mountain trolls, each and every one, and it is not often that anyone catches site of them, altought it does happen once in a while. Those who have "second sight" have the power; they can find out how they look, and how they're getting on. There is probably not such a big difference between them and us, because the same one has created them. But they are not Christians like we are.
