"But the boy answered, 'You need not fear, there are no risks to
run.'"

The troll appeared again, and Sigurdur gave her two old and two young
sheep. When he returned to the farm he declared that he had seen nothing
unusual. Next year the troll appeared as usual, and took four sheep,
which Sigurdur offered her, and himself besides. When she arrived at her
cave, she bade Sigurdur kill them, and then bade him sharpen an axe, for
she was going kill him. He did so, but she spared him.

From this point, the story becomes more of a common fairy tale. By
following the troll's advice, Sigurdur won Margaret, the dean's
daughter.[67]

This is another story about a troll that comes on Christmas Eve and
harms people only when they expose themselves after sunset. Particularly
noteworthy are the statements: "Gudmundur became attached to him, and on
Christmas Eve begged him to come home from his sheep before
sunset";--"Next Christmas Eve, Gudmundur begged Sigurdur to be cautious,
and not run any risks, for he loved him as his own son";--and, "The
farmer ... asked him whether he had seen anything. 'Nothing whatever,
out of the common,' replied the boy." They bear a striking resemblance
to the corresponding statements in the _Hrólfssaga_: "The king said,
'Now I desire that all the men be still and quiet in the night, and I
forbid them all to run any risk on account of the beast; let the cattle
fare as fate wills; my men I do not wish to lose'";--and, "The king
asked in the morning whether they knew anything of the beast; whether it
had showed itself anywhere in the night; they told him the cattle were
all safe and sound in the folds."