Tales of Treasure - Anonymous

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tales of treasure. There are still to be seen near Flinsbourg,
the ruins of a very ancient building. Two soldiers once
stood on guard there, But when one of them was
gone to the town, it chanced that a tall white
woman came to the other and spoke to him, and said,

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I am an unhappy spirit who has wandered here these
many hundred years, but never shall I find rest in
the grave. She then informed him that under the walls
of the castle a great treasure was concealed, which only
three men in the world could take up, and that
he was one of the three. The man, who now

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saw his fortune was made, promised to follow her directions
in every particular, whereupon she desired him to come to
the same place at twelve o'clock the following night. The
other soldier, meanwhile, had come back from the town just
as the appointment was made with his comrade. He said
no nothing about what unseen he had seen and heard,

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but went early the next evening and concealed himself amongst
some bushes. When his fellow soldier came with his spade
and shovel, he found the white woman at the appointed place,
But when she perceived that they were watched. She put
off the appointed business until the next evening. The man
who had lain on the watch to no purpose went
home and suddenly fell ill, And as he thought he

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should die of that sickness, he sent for his comrade
and told him how he knew all, and conjured him
not to have anything to do with witches or with spirits,
but rather to seek counsel of the priest, who was
a prudent man. The other thought it would be the
wisest plan to follow the advice of his comrade, so
he went and discovered the whole affair to the priest, who, however,

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desired him to do as the spirit had bidden him.
Only he was to make her lay the first hand
to the work herself. The pointed time was now, and
the man was at the place when the white woman
had pointed out to him the spot, and they were
just beginning the work. She said to him that when
the treasure was taken up, when half of it should

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be his, but that he must divide the other half
equally between the church and the poor. Then the devil
entered into the man and awakened his covetousness, so that
he cried out, what shall I not have the whole
scarcely had he spoken, when the figure, with a most
mournful wail, passed in a blue flame over the moat

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of the castle, and the man fell sick and died
within three days. The story soon spread through the country,
and a poor scholar who heard it thought he had
now an opportunity of making his fortune. He therefore went
at midnight to the place, and there he met with
a wandering white woman, and he told her why he

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was come, and offered his services to raise the treasure. She, however,
answered that he was not one of the three, one
of whom alone could free her, and that the wall
in which was the money would still remain so firm
that no human beings should be able to break it.
She told him that at some future time he should
be rewarded for his good inclination. And it is said

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when a long time after he had passed by that
place and thought with compassion on the sufferings of the
unblest woman, he fell in his face over a great
heap of money, which soon put him again on his feet.
The wall still remains undisturbed, and as often as any
one has attempted to throw it down, whatever is thrown
down in the day is replaced again in the night.

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Three men went once in the night time to Clemhoy
to try their luck for a dragon watches. There over
a great treasure. They dug into the ground, giving each
other a strict charge not to utter a word whatever
might happen, otherwise all their labor would be in vain.
When they had dug pretty deep their space struck against

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the copper chest. They then made signs to one another,
and all with both hands laid hold of a great
copper ring it was on the top of the chest,
and pulled up the treasure. When they had just got
it into their possession, one of them forgot the necessity
of silence and shouted out one pull more, and we
have it that very instant the chest flew away out

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of their hands to the lake store up. But as
they all held hard on the ring, it remained in
their grasp. They went and fastened the ring on the
door of Saint Olav's church, and there it remains to
this very day. Near Dangstrup there is a hill which
is called Dangberg. Dawns. Of this hill, it is related

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that it is at all times covered with a blue mist,
and that under it there lies a large copper kettle
full of money. One night two men went there to
dig after this treasure, and they had got so far
as to they hold of the handle of the kettle.
All sorts of wonderful things began then to appear to
disturb them at their work. One time a coach drawn

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by four black horses drove by them. Then they saw
a black dog with a fiery tongue. Then there came
a cock drawing a load of hay. Still the men
persisted in not letting themselves speak, and still dug on
without stopping. At last a fellow came limping up to
them and said, see, Dangstrup is on fire. When the

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men looked towards the town, it appeared exactly as if
the whole place were in bright flame. Then at length
one of the men forgot to keep silence, and the
moment he uttered exclamation, the treasure sank deeper and deeper,
And as often since as any attempt has been made
to get it up, the trolls have, by their spells
and artifices, prevented its success. The end folklore and legends

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Scandinavian author various