SOGNDAL, Norway (UPI) -- A Norwegian hunter received a gift from above when a disoriented deer apparently slipped on a patch of ice and plummeted to where the hunter was eating.

Sveinung Brusegard said he was taking a break from hunting to enjoy his packed lunch when a female deer fell down a steep mountainside and landed next to him, Aftenposten reported.

"I saw the hind come whizzing through the air, and the trip stopped just three meters (about 10 feet) from where I was sitting. I bent over and stabbed it with my knife, and that was my quota full for this year," Brusegard.

Brusegard said the deer had broken its back in the fall and was unconscious when he ended its suffering.

The hunter said his permit only allowed him to shoot a buck, but hunting officials were lenient when he described the situation that led to the animal's death.

"I said I couldn't affect what came from heaven, and that wasn't easy to argue with," Brusegard said.

Poor deer