[Gutenberg 51771] • The Trail of the Elk

HIS is a story of a wizard Elk-Rauten, he was a human being in a animal guise.The story begins in Re' valley, which lies like a yawning gap between mountains, long and flat with borders of forests so dark they look as though the blackness of night lingered within them. A river moves sluggishly along the bottom of the valley, making its way slowly and carefully between stretches of light-red sand. It runs northwards, a rare thing in Norway.