Nature Stories #33305
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Natural history. Folktales and adventures of Jón Árnason. - Selection.
The life stone.
The lifestone has been very famous in ancient times, as can be seen from Kórmak's saga and other ancient sagas, and therefore it is not a gender, although stories have been told about it since then. It has its name because it both revives what is dead and dying, prolongs a person's life and heals wounds faster and better than any other thing. When a person gets a lifestone, all he has to do is make a slit in the skin under the side of his left hand and keep it there, because it heals the bones outside of him; it can also be worn in a gold ring on the third finger from the thumb.
There are examples of a raven reviving its young with it if a person kills all the raven chicks in the nest and throws them away, but squeezes one to death and ties it there and puts a stone in its mouth so that its throat is open. If the raven is often at the nest, it will fetch this stone and put it in the chick's mouth. The nest should then be visited after two or three days have passed, when the chick is revived and a red stone as small as a bean is in its mouth. "Take the stone, but set the chick free."
The life stone.
The lifestone has been very famous in ancient times, as can be seen from Kórmak's saga and other ancient sagas, and therefore it is not a gender, although stories have been told about it since then. It has its name because it both revives what is dead and dying, prolongs a person's life and heals wounds faster and better than any other thing. When a person gets a lifestone, all he has to do is make a slit in the skin under the side of his left hand and keep it there, because it heals the bones outside of him; it can also be worn in a gold ring on the third finger from the thumb.
There are examples of a raven reviving its young with it if a person kills all the raven chicks in the nest and throws them away, but squeezes one to death and ties it there and puts a stone in its mouth so that its throat is open. If the raven is often at the nest, it will fetch this stone and put it in the chick's mouth. The nest should then be visited after two or three days have passed, when the chick is revived and a red stone as small as a bean is in its mouth. "Take the stone, but set the chick free."