The Juniper Tree (1990)

Valdimar Örn Flygenring: Jóhann

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• Jóhann : She's got two legs and a nose, she's not a goat.

• Jóhann : You know about the man who couldn't find his wife?

  Margit : No.

  Jóhann : Well, one day a farmer came home and his wife was nowhere to be found. So he called on Olaf the priest, who went to all the trolls of the hills, but also couldn't find the man's wife. Finally, he remembered one rock, far in the north, where two trolls were living. He went there and called them out. They came and had to admit that they had stolen the man's wife. They brought her out to show, but she was in a glass box, asleep as if she were dead. And there was nothing Olaf could do to bring her back, although he made the trolls promise to go back into the rock and never to take anyone else again.

• Jóhann : [reading from the Bible]  But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough now. Oh, Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers." And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Arise and eat." And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

• Jóhann : He's dead and she's gone, little girl. And we're all that's left. We're all that's left.

• Jóhann : Why are you here? You don't belong here.