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Favorite thing: According to a legend the Heddal Stave Church was built within just three days. The local farmer Raud Rygi had made a bet with a stranger, who promised him to build the church if only he guessed his name. If he couldn't do that, however, he would have to bring him the sun and the moon, and the blood from his heart. Raud was sure he would win, but after three days the church was ready and the farmer was desperate - he had not managed to learn the man's name. But on the third day he heard a lullaby coming from inside the mountain nearby:
Hush, hush little baby, do.
Tomorrow daddy Finn will bring to you
the moon, the sun and a Christian heart
for you to play with, my little sweetheart.
Now he knew the builder was the troll Finn, who lived in that mountain. That's how Raud saved his life and Heddal got its church. But the troll couldn't bear the sound of the churchbells every Sunday and moved with his family to another mountain.