Legend of Haifoss by Jkboy Jatenipat

Legend of Haifoss by Jkboy Jatenipat

Haifoss waterfall, the second highest waterfall of the island,
situated near the volcano Hekla in the south of Iceland. The river Fossá, a tributary of Þjórsá, drops here from a height of 122 m. There is a legend related to Háifoss waterfall. It goes like this: “An ogress lived in Háifoss (which used to be called Fossárfoss before it got its name in 1912). She lived on trout, which she caught in the waterfall. Once a teenage boy travelling with other travelers threw a rock into the river. That night the ogress went to the tent, where the travelers were sleeping, and tried to pull the teenage boy by his legs out of the tent. But his mates pulled him in the other direction by the upper part of his body. After a lot of tussle the ogress let the boy go and went away, but the boy was bedridden for a whole month from this maltreatment”. (Translated from the Folklore of Jón Árnason).

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