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Overview
The larger ogress sends her smaller companion to fetch her father’s big bull when Búkolla turns a tail hair into a river. The bull is described as gigantic and drinks the whole obstacle, allowing the pursuit to continue. When the cow next creates a wall of flame, the bull is fetched again and expels the swallowed water onto it.
The final mountain barrier defeats the pursuer through a different device: a boring iron makes a passage too narrow for the larger ogress, who sticks there as stone. The bull is not described as turning into stone, and its fate is not supplied. Its owner is the ogress’s unnamed father; that ownership is not the bull’s biological parentage.
Origins & earliest records
Icelandic Legends, collected by Jón Árnason, translated by George E. J. Powell and Eiríkr Magnússon, second series (1866), Another Story of another Bukolla, pp. 519–522.
Records & interpretation
Complete second Búkolla tale in the surviving alternate-copy OCR; damaged printed p. 520 in the earlier Google scan is not used to reconstruct missing claims.
Selected bibliography
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Icelandic Legends, second series: Another Story of another Bukolla, pp. 519–522
Complete named second tale. The preceding Helga/Bukolla narrative is a distinct account.
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References
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- Primary textIcelandic Legends, second series, 1866 alternate surviving copyResearch access: 2026-10-05
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