Einar was a wooden fairy and druid who sailed with a company and is now dead; his severed head was handed over by devils as payment in an exchange. «Yo soy de madera» (“I am made of wood”), he declared.
| Type | Character (wooden fairy, druid) |
| Status | Dead |
| Spanish entry | Einar |
Nature
No other wooden fairy is recorded. At a ceremony he was introduced as “someone you know”, a recognizable individual rather than one of a common species. Yet the same account says “one of the characteristics of these birds is that they have spines on the back”, in the plural, hinting at a class of bird-fairies of which he would be the only known member.
He had a vegetal power, “having to do with vegetation”, inherent to being made of wood, and practiced as a druid. Half a meter of woody creature aboard a ship passes unseen: at a distance he was mistaken for the mast, or “for the mizzen”. He had wooden wings; no record shows him flying.
Death
The devils handed over “Einar’s head and something more… a number of things from their hostages” in payment for an exchange. He was sacrificed for power or for a book; which of the two, and who received it, is not fixed. His head, separated from the body, remained with those who received it from the devils. His companions declared him dead aloud: “Einar is fucking dead.”
Conflicting accounts
Two figures are recorded and not reconciled:
- “A woman, in theory”: a fairy of fifty to eighty centimeters (accounts differ), with wooden wings and spines on the back, wholly of wood.
- “A tiny figure at 20 feet, a fully bearded Viking”, opulent but aged, avoiding ports, “really the Swift novel”.
Both are tiny; they differ in sex, hair and substance. In the same list that identifies the Viking appears a figure named Nic Dregos; the link between them is not explained.
Open questions
- Whether Einar and the bearded Viking are one entity, its phases, or two creatures.
- Whether he measured fifty or eighty centimeters.
- How his vegetal power worked (generating or manipulating vegetation); Einar himself asked and got no answer.
- Whether the wings and dorsal spines are one trait or two.
- What exactly was bought with his head, and who holds that power or book; whether the devils held him hostage, and who killed or ceded him.
- What “these birds” with dorsal spines are, and whether another like him exists.