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Over fjellet gikk en gammel sti mellom to bygder.
Over the mountain, an old path ran between two villages.
Olav ryddet den stien hver eneste sommer.
Olav cleared that path every single summer.
Han bar stein og la dem der vannet rant.
He carried stones and laid them where the water flowed.
Ingen hadde bedt ham om å gjøre det.
No one had asked him to do so.
Turistene trodde stien var laget av kommunen.
The tourists thought the path was made by the municipality.
En sommer ble Olav for gammel til å gå opp.
One summer, Olav became too old to get up.
Stien grodde igjen på bare to år.
The path grew again in just two years.
Da forsto folk hvem som hadde holdt den åpen.
Then people understood who had kept it open.