00:00:00.000Grottesonger, the lay of Grotti, the mill song
00:00:27.000King Throdi succeeded to the kingdom of Denmark at the time when the Emperor Augustus had proclaimed peace over all the world.
00:00:37.240And as Throdi was the most powerful king in the north, the peace was attributed to him and called Throdi's peace, wherever the Danish tongue was spoken.
00:00:46.680When on a visit to King Fjolnir in Sweden, he bought two female slaves, whose names were Finia and Minia, both of great strength and stature.
00:00:59.960At this time, two millstones were found in Denmark, so large that no one could drag them.
00:01:06.720These stones possessed the property of grinding whatever the grinder wished.
00:01:11.740Throde set the two shays to work at the corn, or mill, which was named Groti,
00:01:17.940and commanded them to grind gold, peace, and prosperity to Throde,
00:01:23.820but he allowed them not a moment's rest, nor even sleep longer than while the cuckoo was silenced,
00:01:53.020Missing took Groti, together with Phinia and Minia,
00:01:57.060and caused white salt to be ground in his ships until they sank in Pentland Firth.
00:02:01.880There is ever since a vortex where the sea falls into Groti's eye, where the sea roars as it Groti roars, and then it was that the sea first became salt.