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Mannen i Ausa - River Rapids

"Mannen i Ausa" is a legend from the northern of Norway (You can read the legend at the end of this description). This ride takes inspiration in the legend and tells the story in a different way. Mannen is the norwegian word for "the man". Ausa is the name of a cave on the island Senja. Please come visit the "The man in Ausa".

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The legend: Mannen i Ausa (EN)
“Out on the utmost tip of Senja lived fisherman brothers two.
They had a helper in their boat, he was blind, but wary and shrewd.
One day as they pulled their fishing nets on the banks outside Gryllefjord,
the blind man heard, through the bawl of birds, something heavy thump to the floor.

It was a dead man they had caught, sou’wester and boots still on.
But the brothers lied to the blind, they said “it was just a seal, now it’s gone”.
Then they steered their boat not home like they ought but to Ausa, a cave at the ness,
and hid the corpse between boulders and rocks, with a view to the banks in the West.

Then they severed pieces off the dead man’s flesh and hitched onto every hook
And where they’d been rowing through barren sea, there was fish everywhere they’d look
Now they had bait which as if by fate gave them more fish than they could pull,
and with every throw, their catch would grow, and soon their whole boat was full.


In the evenings the brothers were buying rounds, and the glasses were filled to the brim,
but when people asked how they paid for their pints, the two wouldn’t say a thing.
But the villagers were dying to know, would not let the blind one be.
He whispered “Right, come tomorrow night to Ausa and then you can see.”

So people set off through the dark and hid among Ausa’s stones
and watched as the brothers sheared and tore off flesh from the dead man’s bones.
Then they plunged into sight with axes and schytes, drove the two into their boat again,
tied them down, pulled the boat around and set fire to both boat and men.


Today they call it the Bleak Hill. You can see that it’s grassless from far.
And all the fish that the brothers caught turned harsh and black as tar.
And there, out on the tip of Senja, weather and winds still whine
of brothers who dwell in the hot pools of Hell because they were the ones who were blind.”