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Norwegian Troll Tales
What you need to know before your trail
Over thirty Norwegian troll tales retold by Joanne Asala. There’s lot of things to know about trolls. Some of these stories you will have heard before but others are there to discover. These trolls are busy and complicated creatures that there’s lots to learn!
Includes lively illustrations by Theodor Kittelsen and others.
Travel Guide
Norway
A troll is a creature popular in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. According to old Norse traditions, trolls are beings who often dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, but they also live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
Depending on which book you read, which story you believe and which illustrator draws them. Trolls are often ugly with big noses and faces like giants with big black eyes. They sometimes look like exaggerated human beings with big features, long noses and coloured or very shaggy hair.
Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks – trees, mounds etc which are often thought to have been formed when a troll was exposed to sunlight.
In Old Norse, the words troll and tröll mean “fiend, demon” and similar.
The verb trylla means ‘to enchant, to turn into a troll’
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Norwegian Troll Tales
Destination : Norway Author/Guide: Joanne Asala
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