Why the Sea Is Salt — Northern Europe & Scandinavia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Norway, to a farm under a dark hill on Christmas Eve, with the snow coming down and nothing at all in the pot. A poor man goes to his rich brother to beg for food, and is given a side of bacon on one condition — that he take it and go to Dead Man's Hall and not come back. What he brings home from that errand is a small old hand-mill that will grind anything you ask it for, and the one thing nobody who buys it ever thinks to ask is how you make it stop.
Source & tradition: Norwegian tradition. "Kvernen som står og maler på havsens bunn" was collected by Peter Christen…
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