Fenja And Menja: Two Giant Sisters, Magical Grotte Mill And Why The Sea Is Salt

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - In Norse legends, Fenja and her sister Menja were two giant maidens who mined gold in the Grotte (or the 'World Mill'). It was a legendary, magical mill with two massive millstones that no man had enough strength to grind.

Menia (Menja) and Fenia (Fenja) by W. J. Wiegand, (fl. 1869–1882)

Menia (Menja) and Fenia (Fenja) by W. J. Wiegand (fl. 1869–1882).

The magical mill could grind everything, both good things, including gold, peace, happiness, and terrible things like war, tragedy, and ruin.

Moreover, the mill's magic was that it could grind out what the mill drivers were singing about, but as legend has it, no one had been strong enough to operate the mill.

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