Legend
The Devil's bridge at Oiu
Vanapagana sild Oiu juures
On the western shore of Lake Võrtsjärv, where the Tänassilma river enters the lake at Oiu, people pointed to a long ridge of stones running out into the water. According to a tale recorded in 1889, the Old Devil set out to bridge the lake from the Vare farm at Oiu to the Saba farm in Tarvastu. The work had to be done at midnight, but his spirits had barely built a few hundred paces from each shore when the cocks crowed and they fled underground. The northern stub became known as Oiu vare and the southern as Saba nina.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Võrtsjärve läänekaldal, kus Oiu juures suubub järve Tänassilma jõgi, näitas rahvas vette ulatuvat pikka kivivaret. 1889. aastal kirja pandud jutu järgi tahtnud Vanapagan teha silla üle järve Oiu Vare talu juurest Tarvastu Saba taluni. Töö pidi tehtama keskööl, kuid tema vaimud jõudsid kummaltki kaldalt ehitada vaid mõnisada sammu, kui kuked laulsid ja nad maa alla põgenesid. Põhjapoolset otsa hakati kutsuma Oiu vareks ja lõunapoolset Saba ninaks.
Source: After the Estonian Folklore Archives (H I 2, 342, 1889), via folklore.ee ↗