The Ljungby Horn
The Ljungby horn, a great drinking horn with gilded silver mounts that is kept at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania (Skåne), southern Sweden. Legend says the trolls who live beneath the great boulder Maglestenen once feasted on golden pillars at Christmas, and that a stable hand who rode out on their feast night came away with their horn and their pipe. As he rode, the drink he was offered burnt his horse's flank like acid, and the trolls pursued him to the castle gate; when he reached the plowed field and rode a cross shape over it, the trolls could not follow. They cursed the castle — the hors