CHAPTER II. 



A LEGEND OF THE HUNS DOMARE-BING GIANTS. 



THERE were many legendary stories, superstitions, &c., 

 connected with the country about Ronnum. Amongst the 

 rest, relating to the very picturesque hills of Hunneberg and 

 Halleberg, which were immediately in front of, and at less 

 than a mile's distance from the house, and were remarkable 

 for their geological structure. As a specimen of these 

 legends, I give the following : . 



In olden times thus runs the story there was a nation 

 in the interior of the present Russian empire, called the Huna 

 folk, or the Huna people, who were very powerful, and 

 so numerous, that the word Huna is at the present day 

 used to express anything infinite in number or abundance, 

 as for example, " Huna-hop, Huna-har," that is, an incalcu- 

 lable crowd or army. 



These people at length invaded Sweden, for which aggres- 

 sion two reasons are assigned : the one, that the Gotar, or 

 Goths, as the Swedes were then called, had repeatedly assisted 



