
A story that might sound like a fairy tale but actually happened 33 years ago in Iceland.
Heroic heifer who was led to slaughter escaped and swam through an icy fjord...
"In October 1987,
Iceland Review reports, it looked like Sæunn the Cow’s life was quickly coming to its end. Known then as Harpa, she and two of her compatriots were being led to slaughter in the Westfjords village of Flateyri when she decided to take fate by the reins and make a daring escape. Rushing toward the sea, Sæunn flung herself into the fjord of Önundarfjörður and swam three kilometres across it. Many cows would have simply given up mid-swim or turned back around, but not her. Instead, she paddled on and, reaching the shore at Valþjófsdalur farm, was met by a friendly couple who rechristened her with a name befitting her feat (Sæunn, ‘sæ-’ meaning ‘sea’) and gave her safe haven for the rest of her days."
The cow was pregnant when she swam across the fjord, sensing the danger she must have definitely been thinking about the fate of her unborn calf as well.
I was touched by that story as even in 2D we can sometimes witness beings breaking out of the predefined ways of the crowd, mustering their courage and opening a new time line for themselves.
The cow that didn't give in.
I hope I'm citing the C's correctly:
Flateyri, Iceland