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In many cases the people of Närke were quite tired of the wind-troll, but she on the other hand never got tired of causing trouble for them.

When she was sitting on the top of a cloud watching Närke, which lay under her with its affluence and wealth of prominent homesteads on the plain, and rich mines and ironworks in the hills, with its turpid Svartån River, and the shallow plain lakes that were so rich in fish, with its good old borough of Örebro that sprawled around the serious old castle with the sturdy towers, then she must have thought: " here people would be much too well off, if it were not for me, who shake them up and keep them happy.

" And then she would laugh widely and tauntingly like a magpie, and whirl away, dancing and whirling from one corner of the plain to another.

When the farmer saw her run with her trail of dust over the plain, he could not help smiling, because however teasing and naughty she could be, she had a good temper.

It was also just as refreshing for the farmers to deal with the troll, as it was for the plain to be whipped by the storm.