This week we looked at a Danish folk tale about a troll and a farmer asking what is a fair deal?

The farmer had a hill among his fields, which he did not want to leave idle. So he plowed it, but the troll who lived under the hill came out and asked him:

"How dare you plow my roof?"

"I didn't know it was your roof," the farmer said, "but it is neither to your advantage nor to mine for us to allow the land to lie idle. Let me plow and plant . the first year you may take what is growing above the ground, and I shall reap what grows in the earth. The next year we will change around."

The deal was made, and the first year the farmer planted carrots. the second year he sowed wheat. The troll got the tops of the carrots and the roots of the wheat. In this way they lived in harmony.