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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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The
next
tidings
that
happened
at
Froda
were
that
the
shepherd
came
in
and
was
very
silent;
he
spoke
little,
and
that
in
a
frenzied
manner.
Folk
were
most
inclined
to
believe
that
he
had
been
bewitched,
because
he
went
about
by
himself,
and
talked
to
himself.
This
went
on
for
some
time,
but
one
evening,
when
two
weeks
of
winter
had
passed,
the
shepherd
came
home,
went
to
his
bed,
and
lay
down
there.
When
they
went
to
him
in
the
morning
he
was
dead,
and
was
buried
at
the
church.
Soon
after
this
there
began
great
hauntings.
One
night
Thorir
Wooden-
leg
went
outside
and
was
at
some
distance
from
the
door.
When
he
was
about
to
go
in
again,
he
saw
that
the
shepherd
had
come
between
him
and
the
door.
Thorir
tried
to
get
in,
but
the
shepherd
would
not
allow
him.
Then
Thorir
tried
to
get
away
from
him,
but
the
shepherd
followed
him,
caught
hold
of
him,
and
threw
him
down
at
the
door.
He
received
great
hurt
from
this,
but
was
able
to
reach
his
bed;
there
he
turned
black
as
coal,
took
sickness
and
died.
He
was
also
buried
at
the
church
there,
and
after
this
both
the
shepherd
and
Thorir
were
seen
in
company,
at
which
all
the
folk
became
full
of
fear,
as
was
to
be
expected.
This
also
followed
upon
the
burial
of
Thorir,
that
one
of
Thorodd's
men
grew
ill,
and
lay
three
nights
before
he
died;
then
one
died
after
another,
until
six
of
them
were
gone.
By
this
time
the
Christmas
fast
had
come,
although
the
fast
was
not
then
kept
in
Iceland.
The
store-
closet,
in
which
the
dried
fish
were
kept,
was
packed
so
full
that
the
door
could
not
be
opened;
the
pile
reached
nigh
up
to
the
rafters,
and
a
ladder
was
required
to
get
the
fish
off
the
top
of
it.
One
evening
while
the
folk
were
sitting
round
the
fires,
the
fish
were
torn,
but
when
search
was
made
no
living
thing
could
be
found
there.
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