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In the Faroe Islands there are two versions of the story of the Selkie or Seal Wife.
A young farmer from the town of Mikladalur on Kalsoy island goes to the beach to watch the selkies dance.
He hides the skin of a beautiful selkie maid, so she can not go back to sea, and forces her to marry him.
He keeps her skin in a chest, and keeps the key with him both day and night.
One day when out fishing, he discovers that he has forgotten to bring his key.
When he returns home, the selkie wife has escaped back to sea, leaving their children behind.
Later, when the farmer is out on a hunt, he kills both her selkie husband and two selkie sons, and she promises to take revenge upon the men of Mikladalur.
Some shall be drowned, some shall fall from cliffs and slopes, and this shall continue, until so many men have been lost that they will be able to link arms around the whole island of Kallsoy.
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