"What to do, where to go, see that is
a good question"
The second nisse had given this some
thoughts, "In the harbor, there are plenty of boats, and most people don't
use them during midwinter", he answered.
"See, that is a good answer to my
question", the first nisse said merrily.
And the word was sent out, to North and
South, to East and West, to all their friends: Yule gathering in
the harbor.
All the nisses
and leprechauns and some little trolls gathered in the harbour, the
night before Christmas. If you were not so busy decorating your Christmas
tree, or making Christmas dinner, or going to church, you might have seen that
there was activity in the harbor, but then maybe not, they are difficult to
spot.
"Should we put up the sail and go
sailing?", a little leprechaun asked. His friends locked at him, and he
had to admit he knew nothing about sailing, so that was maybe a wild idea. Then
someone knocked at the door, and the whole party tried to disappear in a hurry.
Bu.t there was no reason to worry; entered Draugen himself. He is the most
dangerous of all the creatures from the Netherworld, living under the sea. If
you meet him, it is hard to know if you ever live to tell the tale. But, it is
different for us than them, they are after all part of the same family; some good, other not so good.
Wow, did they get sailing! Draugen sailed
like the devil himself; some say he is closely related to him. They sailed all
the way north through the Northern Sea, and all the way Draugen held the rudder
steady. The winds blew harder, a storm came in, but Draugen just laughed,
loving the bad weather, yet kept his company safe. The whales cheered them on
the way, they met mermaids and they danced under the Northern light. A
joyful Yule; truly a Yule to remember.
I am not sure whose boat they borrowed, but I can assure every boat owner in the harbor, that these guests will clean up after themselves properly, and you will hardly know anyone has been on board. The only thing that might give them away, is the fact that their knots tend to be slightly more difficult to open in the spring than our ordinary knots. This is good if there is a new storm approaching during winter.
