Here is a story about a project I'm doing with Great Auk involved, this project will be at local artists' exhibition in October, I will show it to you when it will be ready.

The Worst Whale Named Redhead
Once several people from the Southwest of Iceland went to the Geirfuglasker (Great Auk Rocks) to capture the Great Auk. When they should back to the land, one man was missing and they didn´t found him. They went without him to their home and the man was considered dead. But a year later the same men came back to the Geirfuglasker (Great Auk Rocks), and found the missing man a live there. He told them that the elfs had hailed him and kept him with them and do well with him. He wouldn´t stay with the elfs and went ashore with the men. But he had come to one elf woman and she was pregnant with his child and she had him promise to let baptize the baby, if she would bring it to the church where he was with Mass. Some time later, this man was with Mass at the church Hvalsneskirkju (Whalenesschurch), and there was a cradle outside the church door and a baby along with the target letter that was written unequivocally: -„ Person who is the father of this child, will ensure that there will be baptized.“- Men wondered at this, and the priest suspected that the man which was a year in the Geifuglasker (Great Auk Rocks) was likely the father of it. So he told the man to accept the child, but he refused. Suddenly a woman, strong and graceful stood with them. She turned to the man and said, „ There, I suggest that you be the worst and aggreasivest whale in the marine and destroy many ships.“ Then she graffed the cradle with the child in it and disappeared, and no one knew more about it. But they were on to it that there would have been the fairy from the Geirfuglasker (Great Auk Rocks), where the man lived.
After that the man became mad and ran away. He ran out away from the people directly in to the sea, there he turned into the worst whale and Rauðhöfði (Redhead) was called, because he had a red cap on his head when he threw himself into the sea. The whale that turned bad and very haunting and it was said that he had sunk 19 ships between Seltjarnarnes and Akranes, before the completion. It had very many people suffering by him. When the time passed, he began to live in the fjord between Kjalarnes and Akranes and therefore was the fjord named Hvalfjördur (Whalefjord).
At this time, there was a priest in the Church of Hvalfjarðarströnd (Whalefjordbeach) both old and blind. He had two sons and one daughter, all grown up, and the most promising one. The priest was an ancient mind, and knew everything as long his nose. His sons often rowed out to fish in the fjord, once the worst whale came and he drowned them both, the priest fell heavily on the bereaved. One day a little later the priest asks his daughter to lead him down to the fjord that was a long way from the Church. He had a stick in his hand and staggers with the help of his daughter down to the beach. He put the stick in to the sea and supported until it. He asks his daughter how the sea looks, but she says the sea is beautiful and perfect. A little later the priest asked again how the sea looks. Then the girl says that she sees dark streak comming outside the fjord, like a big fish wade into the fjord. And when she says this the streak nearly arrived in front of them, the priest asks her to lead him into the shore and she makes it so. The streak was always beside them and did so until they was into the fjord. But when it became shallower, the girl saw that the streak was a very large whale that swam directly into the fjord as if he were fired or dreawn .
When they were where the fjord ended and the river began, which ran out to the fjord, the priest asked his daughter to lead him up the river to the west. She did so and the man staggered up the mountain, but the whale followed them in the river and it was a very difficult because there was so little water in the river, and the animal was so large. But when the whale came into the gorge where the river fall off, the overcrowding became so intense that everything trembled when the large whale rushed forward. Finally, he went to shake the earth around the waterfall as the greatest earthquake and became a loud noise in the rock. But the priest did not stop until he reached the lake in that hill. When Rauðhöfði (Redhead) came into the lake, he exploded from strain to get up there. The priest went back home with his daughter after the whale was in the lake and dead, and all thanked him for what he had done, and no one has seen anything more of the whale, but whale bone have been found at the lake and it supports this story.

Akranes is my home town – hope you have enjoy you reading this story
Sigrun