 When he returned to the surface, quite embarrassed with no calf to show for his efforts, there was golden sand in his shoes which he had unwittingly picked up along the way.The calf turned up several days later when the farmer at Stóri-Núpur, a farm at several kilometres distance away from Hellar and on the other side of Þjórsá-river, heard mooing coming out from under his bed.Upon a closer look it turned out to be the calf that got lost in the cave, safe and sound except for its tail which it had somehow lost along the way.