The Priest Bangsbill and the Night Ride to Borgund
Møre og Romsdal · Norway · Church
A priest versed in black arts forced the devil to carry him across the sea by night – at a grim price.
In Hjørundfjord they tell of the priest Bangsbill, who used his book of magic to bind the devil into ferrying him from Bergen to Borgund church in a single night. The promised payment was the souls of all who slept through his sermon. When the devil tried to trick him into speaking God's name, the priest only shouted for more speed, and at the church he drove down his staff so the trickster was forced into the rock.
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The Priest Bangsbill and the Night Ride to Borgund is in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
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