Tuesday, September 24, 2013

A Tale From Klem's Hill

A Tale From Klem's Hill
At night the people could see the bonfires burning on the fields. During those nights it was said that treasures were hidden under the fires.The bonfires were known as "vredeseldar", fire's of rage. Every Christmas Day a vredeseld would burn at Klem's Hill, and no one dared go there. One year a peasant from Välsta walked over with a steel axe in his hand. He saw a mound, and in it he could see two dogs. Fires were burning from their mouths. Under their paws he saw items of silver. That scared the peasant who threw his steel axe into the fire. The fire grew bigger and the peasant ran home and told the story. That was a big mistake because you should always sleep one night before telling such a story. The peasant fell ill, but the steel thrown into the fire stopped it from burning ever again at Klem's Hill. From a book with tales from Södertörn published in 1934, written by Viktor Pettersson.

7 comments:

Lowell said...

Love a Swedish fairy tale. Speaking of which, did you watch the Coca-Cola golf tournament last weekend at which the laconic Swede with the wicked sense of humor won the whole thing - the tournament and the FedEx Cup and he walked away to Stockholm with 11.4 million buckaroos?

For some reason, watching that tournament, I thought of you! Maybe it was the "laconic" and "sense of humor" bit. :)

(I'm doing a bit of blogging on our website: http://www.landlfotos.com/blog.html

Linda said...

Gorgeous clouds! Kind of a scary story though.

Stefan Jansson said...

The golf tournaments from the PGA-tour and the European tour can only be seen on some TV channel that I don't pay for so no, I didn't see Stenson's epic win.

The reason I took this photo yesterday is that a developer have been cutting down a lot of trees in the area. The hill were on the list, but Christina, whom you have met here a few times put a temporary stop to that.

VP said...

Glad someone was so brave and managed to stop the cutting of trees. New real treasures are more precious than the old legendary ones...

Bob Crowe said...

This has a primordial feeling. The feeling of mystery fits the story well. I'd love to see this in mist.

Stuart said...

Great framing of this shot. And congrats on saving the trees. Hope it becomes permanent.

Hilda said...

Love stories like this! Thank you.