Where Suur Tõll lies buried

Tõlluste, in southern Saaremaa, is remembered as the home of the giant Suur Tõll and his wife Piret, and somewhere here, people say, lies his grave. Tõll was so tall that he could almost wade across the Soela strait to visit his brother Leiger on Hiiumaa, and he hurled boulders at the Old Devil and at the island's enemies. The legend says that when an enemy finally cut off his head, Tõll picked it up, carried it on the point of his sword to the place of his grave and lay down there. Later, village children thought it a fine joke to shout at the grave that war had come. Tõll woke, found no enemy, returned to his grave in anger and vowed never to come back. A cup-marked stone called Tõllu kivi lies in the village.