The night before the wedding, the girl was tracked down by a spirit sent to kill her. Who was behind the haunting and where did the spirit go after meeting them?
Once upon a time in Hvítárvellir there lived a farmhand whose name was not given, nor who was his master. Hvítárvellir is an senior immense farm and residence in Borgarfjörður at the mouth of the Hvítá River. This area was considered one of the most valuable in the country and was, among other things, one of the largest salmon fishing grounds in Borgarfjörður.
Since it is an senior farm with a long history, more than one ghost has passed through this place. But unlike the more vengeful spirit of Stormhöttir and Hvítárvellir-Skott, who caused misfortune, accidents, and even death, the specter that became known as the Hay Spirit was a more tragic figure.
The spirit of hay
Before he returned as a ghost, he was a gardener in Hvítárvellir and collected all the hay, and he had plenty of work because there was a immense herd of cattle at that time, both cows and oxen. This man with no name fell in love with a farm girl. While the farmhouse has a pretty good record of the people who have lived there over the years, she too remains nameless.
Unfortunately, she didn't want a gardener and rejected him. Because of this, the man became depressed and isolated himself from others, focusing only on his work, which was carried out as usual. Now no one wanted him and he didn't want anyone.
One day he was found hanging in his own handkerchief in one of the haystacks. People believed that he took his own life out of grief because he couldn't have a girlfriend. In the meantime, she was engaged to another man.
Life went on, and the evening before her wedding, the weather was attractive and the moon was glowing. The girl still had things to do for her wedding in the morning, like finishing her wedding shoes. She told the maid at Hvítárvellir that she should go with her to the door of the house to keep her company while she worked on the shoes, since the night was so clear and glowing outside and it was not yet the time for lighting the lamps.
They sat on the doorstep of the house for a while, the bride-to-be working on her shoes and the other maid resting next to the bride-to-be, until the maid fell asleep and yawned, then called it a night. The bride-to-be sat calmly as before and finished her shoes. When she finished it, she happened to look out and saw a man coming from under the field.
He looked quite impressive and didn't greet her. First she turned to him and asked who he was. According to sources, he introduced himself, but there is no sign that she knew or recognized him. He claimed he had something to do with her. She said, “So it's good that I wasn't in bed if you have a business with me, but what's your point now?”
“I'm going to kill you,” he said.
“I don't think you will,” she said, “and now do either this: go to the lowest and worst hell, or go to the accursed north to the hayfield and there row for all eternity. You will have nothing else from me.”
“I would rather go north to the hayfield a thousand times,” said the spirit, and then he quickly turned and went there, and the seers often saw him rowing there. Then the girl completely freed herself from him and got married in the morning.
In brief, it is commonly said that although in Hvítárvellir, as in many places in this district, there are constant storms, the hay never breaks in the yard unless stones or people are placed on it, and people attribute this to the spirit that lies on the hay and protects the hay from any damage to the hay, provided it is alone in the haystack. But if people lie down on the hay or place stones on it, the hay is said to break up and be swirled down to the fence line.
Once, when the weather turned stormy, in the yard at Hvítárvellir there were, among other things, two stacks of hay, one newly made of loose, lightweight meadow hay and untumbled, the other of compact and settled hay, turfed and well tended. Yet all the sod and stones were thrown off the last haystack as if they had been thrown, and the hay itself was scattered everywhere, while the freshly harvested hay was not disturbed in the least.
Icelandic spirit of revenge
What is quite unusual about this spirit is that he is one of the few who do good and not evil. Móri is a male spirit found in Iceland. When a man is raised from the dead for a purpose such as revenge, he is not called a ghost, but a Móri. Often the term Fylgja spirit was used interchangeably with Draug spirit. The female version of this vengeful spirit was called Skotta. Móri means rusty brown in Icelandic, and the ghosts were named so because of the color of their clothes.
Who was this ghost that knocked on her door the night before her wedding? Was it a man who took his own life, or was it a ghost he resurrected as revenge before leaving the world himself? There has also been speculation that the ghost lying in the hay is the previously mentioned Skotti or Hvítárvellir-Skotti. Some also say that it is Stormhöttur who looks after the hay there, as mentioned in reference to Hvítárvellir-Skott. But that's another story.
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