The Cat On The Dovrefjell

[marycatelli]

"The Cat on the Dovrefjell" by Kaja Foglio.  Retelling an old Norwegian fairy tale.

On Christmas Eve, Lena arrives at her uncle's with the bear she tamed.  Her uncle invites her to join them in the barn, because the trolls break in every Christmas Eve, to hold their feast in the hall.

Lena would have none of it.  She went to sleep inside.  And so did the bear.

The trolls arrive --elaborated in details.  And it starts with singing and dancing and drinking and eating, but it doesn't stop there.

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Comments

[eric-hinkle.livejournal.com]

I think I read a children's book version of this years ago. At east I did if they ended with 'the bear beats the daylights out of the trolls'.

[marycatelli]

That is almost, but not quite, the end of the story.

The actual end is when the trolls ask the householder whether he still has the cat they had last year. He assures them that she had kittens that were even fierce than she was.