Once there was a man who had a great grey-white bear, which he was going to take to the king. He came to the Dovrefell and saw a cottage where an old man lived. He asked the old man if he could get a room there for his bear and himself. The old man refused saying that every night, trolls came to his small cottage to trouble him. So, he couldn’t shelter anyone. The man with the bear promised to help the old man and so he got leave to stay there.
When the trolls arrived, the bear lay under the stove. A small troll took a piece of sausage, stuck it on a fork and poked it up against the bear’s nose. The white bear rose up and growled, and hunted all the trolls out of door. After some months, when the old man was cutting wood, a troll arrived and asked if the old man still had his big cat. The old man told that she still lay under the stove and had got seven kittens, far bigger and fiercer than the cat. Frightened, the troll ran away in the wood and never troubled the old man again.
