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Snørgl

The Goblin

Part I

Liberation of the Goblins

for children from 8 years and young-at-heart adults

About my writer line

She was born in 1965 in Berlin (a.B.), where she successfully completed an apprenticeship as a lawyer's and notary's assistant after graduating from a comprehensive school.

While still at school, she discovered her love for the written word, but as a working mother of three children, this passion lay dormant for a long time.

She first thought of me over 25 years ago, and so it was only a matter of time before she had me and my friends go on exciting dream journeys and breathed life into us in her books.

German first publication May 2020

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Dedication

I really want everyone to know that my scribe line named the lucky children in this first installment after their grandchildren. A very nice gesture, in my opinion.

To you, dear Raphael, my writer line and I say a heartfelt thank you for your test reading ...

When my writer line had the idea for me more than 25 years ago, it was still her own children who became little heroes in her book. Today it is her grandchildren. For a long, long time, my story lay in a cardboard box and I am delighted with all my heart that she is finally sending my friends and me on a journey.

That’s me… Snørgl the Goblin

The characters in this story:

The head goblins:

Vegard (the clever one), Dellingur (the shiny one), and Dagbjartur (the daylight one)

The forest goblins:

Snørgl (pronounced Snörgl in our country, the reading one), Djarfur (the brave one), Galdur (the wild one), Vökull (the watchful one), Tamin (the tailor), Pokki (the cook and baker), Pegjandi (who knows all the flowers), Styggur (the thoughtful), Stubbur (the doctor), Reifur (the creative), Léttféti (the climber), Svipdapur (the poet), Gulltoppur (the painter) and Gosi (the craftsman)

The elves:

Lýsa (the shining one), Elin (the radiant one), and Sóla (the sunny one)

The animals:

Kibuz the owl, the firefly, Pauri the puffin, Mink the marten, Halia and Sami the sea eagles, Jola the reindeer, Tuula the owl

The banished forest sprites:

Böggvir (one who causes damage), Amur (the big one) and Allsvartur (who loves the color black)

The lucky children in this book:

Kai, Sonja, Ben, Maja, Leon and Emily

One thing you should know before we embark on our first dream journey with my friends and the lucky kids:

Each child's name is entered into the 'Great Directory' by an elf at birth.

What?

You say one elf alone can't even enter all the babies in the directory? You're right, and I'd like to take this opportunity to briefly tell you how:

Hundreds of years ago, the head elves handwrote their areas of responsibility on a map. However, as time went on, the area in which the Goblin and elves operated grew larger and larger, so the forests had to be divided into more and more areas, and the map grew larger and larger. At some point, all the head Goblin and elves of the land called together to think about how to proceed, because by now there was quite a mess. And so it came about that the map was divided by the head sprites into four equal parts. For each section there were always three head sprites, who also had a part of the map in their care, different numbers of forest sprites (all of whom also lived in the trees in this section) and at least one elf.

The head sprites Vegard, Dellingur and Dagbjartur from the forest where I live also received a part of this large map. They have been assigned the elf Sóla, who lives in the Valley of Butterflies together with her sisters Lýsa and Elin.

The main task of the forest elves has always been to take dream trips with a child assigned to them.

Oh my goodness, you probably can't even imagine what children I'm talking about.

Look, there are children who are sad or unhappy from time to time. For example, parents may decide to move to live with their children in another city or country. Then sometimes friends have to part, which can make you very unhappy.

Maybe a child also had to say goodbye to their pet because it was very sick and couldn't stay with them anymore. I also know of some children who were very worried about someone in the family because of an illness or because the grandparents lived too far away. Still another child was very sad about having had a fight with his brother or sister.

We Goblin learn about these children through the elves.

But how do the elves know about these children, you ask?

I will gladly tell you: they find out from the fireflies that travel at night on their behalf and shine their light in the windows of the children's rooms. They see the sadness or the tears of the children and tell the elves about them. The name of the child is then given by one of the elves to the head elves, who distribute the orders to us elves during the elf meeting. Sometimes there are very few orders over a long period of time, but unfortunately it happens every now and then that we forest sprites have to go on a dream journey with our 'lucky' children. You know, dream trip is called because the goblin in charge takes the child on a trip in his dreams to make them forget their worries.

But just like with humans, there were always Goblin who didn't want to be bossed around anymore. I guess that's what they called it. These were the ones who were always envious of others, always knew everything better and wanted to own what others owned. They constantly quarreled and brought great unrest into the quiet and peaceful coexistence of the Goblin. They were also lazy, did not keep order in their tree dwellings, did not enjoy playing games together and there was always trouble with them. And just imagine: there were even Goblin who didn't like children. Yes, really!

One day Dagbjartur caught the forest sprites Böggvir, Amur and Allsvartur trying to steal the map. Just in time he was able to take it back and that same night the three head woodland sprites and the elf Lýsa took the map to a hiding place. None of us forest sprites learned where this secret place was. But today I know that in this secret hiding place there is also a copy of each of the other three parts of the map.

What we all didn't know at that time: on one of these old maps something is drawn in, which has great importance for goblins. But we all learn more about this as time goes on.

The goblins Böggvir, Amur and Allsvartur, however, were banished and had to leave their tree dwellings and the forest immediately.

And peace and quiet returned to our forest.

During a meeting of the Goblin a few weeks ago, we asked the head Goblin to allow all the Goblin to go on a dream journey together. The head Goblin had nothing against it. But we still had to find a way to make it possible.

Our adventure began when the elf Sóla told us that something terrible had happened: she had learned that Goblin living very far from our forest had been kidnapped and urgently needed help.

I immediately suspected Böggvir, one of the banished sprites, but I had no certainty.

Probably even Allsvartur and Amur helped him to kidnap the goblins.

I wonder how they managed to do that.

But whoever it was: they didn't count on me and my friends ...

But before we start this adventure together, my scribe line has asked me to confess something to you: I'm talkative. Very much so. I like to talk a lot. So please don't be too surprised.