Island Taunga is the place where still live the trolls

This Icelandic island, abruptly rising from the waters of the Bay of Skagafjördur fjord, represents the balance of the 700,000 year old volcano and consists mainly of volcanic tuff.

Jaunga seems impregnable, and indeed, not everyone manages to climb to the top. According to the ancient legend of the fjord once crossed wandering at night giants – a man and a woman, which was their cow. Surprised, dawn, all three of them turned to stone. Island Taunga is a petrified cow; located South of Kenting – former woman-giant; Call (respectively the man-giant), located to the North, disappeared many years ago...

At the sight of the gloomy cliffs Grungey, 180 meters overlooking the sea, with the impression that the island was not inhabited by anyone and lifeless. However, those who manage to get to the top, will be very surprised by the huge variety of birds that nest on these rocks.

In the VIII century Icelandic birders have begun to come back to Taunga to catch and to sell local birds. However, for some unknown reason, these people began to disappear, why the island has gained notoriety. There were rumors that it is inhabited by trolls who kill intruders. Sometimes, to get down to the hide, the hunters used a rope - and they inexplicably stopped, and then the people fell down from the cliff. When you look at cut the rope it seemed that someone had specially cut with a sharp object...

Now people were not only afraid to walk to the island, but even to approach him. It was not until until the Icelandic Bishop Gudmund Arason Good did not go to creepy island to find out what was going on.

Upon arrival at Taunga Bishop moved to its Northern tip. There he securely fastened brought a rope and began to descend from the rocks, carefully watching all that is happening around. Suddenly father saw from the cleft stretched out a huge, hairy hand, and began to cut the strained rope. A mysterious creature has managed to cut two of them, but the third remained intact at the fervent prayer of the Bishop that saved his life.

After returning from his perilous journey, Gudmund Arason reported that, with the exception of the Northern part, the whole Grungey consecrated. Since that time, the Northern extremity of the island is considered to be fatal to humans a place inhabited by trolls. Today, none of the climbers decide to climb the rocks Grungey from its North side. Icelanders believe that there are still living the magical underground creatures who prefer not to show the eye, but keenly watching them...

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»