Legend
The nuns turned to stone at Palmse
Just behind the park wall of Palmse manor in Lahemaa lies a group of fourteen great boulders, some more than ten metres round, with many smaller rapakivi stones around them. Geologists say they are pieces of one huge rock that split apart as the ice sheet melted. Local people had other explanations. The place is named after a nunnery said to have stood there in the 15th century, and the legend says the Almighty turned to stone the nuns who slipped out to meet the Devil. Another version claims the stones are the devils themselves, frozen while spying on the convent, and a third that the nuns were punished for their sins. The Monastery Stones can be visited from April to October, a short walk from the manor.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Palmse mõisa pargimüüri taga Lahemaal lebab neliteist suurt rändrahnu, mõne ümbermõõt üle kümne meetri, ning nende ümber palju väiksemaid rabakivirahne. Geoloogide sõnul on need ühe hiigelkivi tükid, mis lagunes mandrijää sulamisel. Kohalikel oli oma seletus. Paik on saanud nime kloostri järgi, mis olevat seal 15. sajandil seisnud, ja muistend räägib, et Kõigevägevam muutis kiviks nunnad, kes läksid salaja kuradiga kohtuma. Teise jutu järgi on kivid hoopis kuradid, kes tardusid kloostrit piiludes, kolmanda järgi karistati nunni nende pattude eest. Kloostrikive saab vaadata aprillist oktoobrini, mõisast lühikese jalutuskäigu kaugusel.