Faroese Folk Tales — Part 2: Oli the Shepherd · The Hidden Man in Gudstein · Upsala-Paetur · Steffan the Wizard · Fugloy · The Judgement Stones · The Mitten Friend · If I Cut You Here, I Lose You There
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Eight more tales from the Faroe Islands, from Jakob Jakobsen's Faroese Folk Legends and Fairy Tales (1898–1901), in a fresh translation made for KacheliTV.
A crow steals a shepherd's knife in the outfield — and the knife, and the crow that was no crow, draw Oli across the sea to a widow's house in Norway, where the fish he eats is not all it seems. A hidden man in the stone called Gudstein presses his courtship on a farmer's wife, until she turns his own counsel against him. Upsala-Paetur, who never kept a feast at home, travels through the snow to the most unkind house in the Faroes — and keeps the best Christmas of his life there. The wizard Steffan holds a boy standing fast with a word, and drives a rival's ill-will into a tussock. The island of Fugloy floats on the sea until the priests outstare its trolls. A bribe in a mitten splits the Judgement Stones. An unseen voice that once asked for wool for mittens calls out of a storm to save the man who gave it. And a stranger girl, faced with a piece of meat she wants at both ends, finds the way to taste them both.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:50 Oli the Shepherd and the Stolen Knife
6:37 The Hidden Man in Gudstein
8:07 Upsala-Paetur and the Christmas at Gasadal
15:53 Steffan the Wizard, Out on Bo
17:49 Fugloy, the Floating Island
19:09 The Judgement Stones
20:08 The Mitten Friend
21:20 If I Cut You Here, I Lose You There
Source: Færøske Folkesagn og Æventyr (Faroese Folk Legends and Fairy Tales), edited by Jakob Jakobsen (S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, Copenhagen, 1898–1901) — public domain. The translation was made fresh for KacheliTV from Jakobsen's Faroese text. Narrated by Orson.
Music: "2-26" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
Faroese folk tales, Faroe Islands, Jakob Jakobsen, hidden folk, wizards, floating island, folk tales, bedtime stories, KacheliTV
