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414: 474:'s role in fighting such beings. In connection, the lack of trolls and jötnar in modern Scandinavia is sometimes explained as a result of the "accuracy and efficiency of the lightning strokes". Additionally, the absence of trolls in regions of Scandinavia is described in folklore as being a "consequence of the constant din of the church-bells". This ringing caused the trolls to leave for other lands, although not without some resistance; numerous traditions relate how trolls destroyed a church under construction or hurled boulders and stones at completed churches. Large local stones are sometimes described as the product of a troll's toss. Additionally, into the 20th century, the origins of particular Scandinavian landmarks, such as particular stones, are ascribed to trolls who may, for example, have turned to stone upon exposure to sunlight. 1629: 478: 47: 1277: 391:), the last class being the youngest addition. On the other hand, Ármann Jakobson is critical of Motz's interpretation and calls this theory "unsupported by any convincing evidence". Ármann highlights that the term is used to denote various beings, such as a jötunn or mountain-dweller, a witch, an abnormally strong or large or ugly person, an evil spirit, a ghost, a 429:
Later in Scandinavian folklore, trolls become defined as a particular type of being. Numerous tales are recorded about trolls in which they are frequently described as being extremely old, very strong, but slow and dim-witted, and are at times described as man-eaters and as turning to stone upon
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and is mentioned throughout the Old Norse corpus. In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together (usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly. The
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contact with sunlight. However, trolls are also attested as looking much the same as human beings, without any particularly hideous appearance about them, but living far away from human habitation and generally having "some form of social organization"—unlike the
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Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks in Scandinavian folklore, which at times may be explained as formed from a troll exposed to sunlight. Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.
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traditions". They "therefore appear in various migratory legends where collective nature-beings are called for". Lindow notes that trolls are sometimes swapped out for cats and "little people" in the folklore record.
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Lindow states that the etymology of the word "troll" remains uncertain, though he defines trolls in later Swedish folklore as "nature beings" and as "all-purpose otherworldly being, equivalent, for example, to
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See Lindow (1978:89), but noted as early as Thorpe (1851:154) who states "The dread entertained by Trolls for thunder dates from the time of paganism, Thor ... being the deadly foe of their race".
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may have been used by pagan Norse settlers in Orkney and Shetland as a collective term for supernatural beings who should be respected and avoided rather than worshipped.
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sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
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emphasizes not the harrying of Grendel but the cleansing of the hall of Beowulf, so the modern tales stress the moment when the trolls are driven off."
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Smaller trolls are attested as living in burial mounds and in mountains in Scandinavian folk tradition. In Denmark, these creatures are recorded as
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in Orkney and Shetland, to mean beings which are very like the Huldrefolk in Norway, may suggest a common origin for the terms. The word
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Hartley, Gregory (2014). "Civilized goblins and Talking Animals: How The Hobbit Created Problems of Sentience for Tolkien". In
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frightens away trolls and jötnar appears in numerous Scandinavian folktales, and may be a late reflection of the god
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Look at them, troll mother said. Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon.
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could later have become specialized as a description of the larger, more menacing Jötunn-kind whereas
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folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not
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It has been hypothesized that the troll myth might have its origin in real-life interactions between
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were a popular toy based on the folklore creature. Trolls based on the dolls appeared in the
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theorized that these were originally four distinct classes of beings: lords of nature (
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In Norwegian tradition, similar tales may be told about the larger trolls and the
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and trolls, suggesting that both concepts may derive from spirits of the dead.
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genre, with classic examples being the portrayal of trolls in works such as
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var henholdsvis trollkvinne og trollmann – i flertall omtalt som trollfolk.
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Bragi responds in turn, describing himself and his abilities as a skillful
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This article is about beings from Nordic folklore. For the slang term, see
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describes an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th-century
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Trolls have appeared in many works of modern fiction, most often, in the
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is the name, and main antagonist, of a 2022 Norwegian movie released by
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John Arnott MacCulloch posited a connection between the Old Norse
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There is much confusion and overlap in the use of Old Norse terms
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Kvideland, Reimund. Sehmsdorf, Henning K. (editors) (2010).
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Lindow compares the trolls of the Swedish folk tradition to
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likely borrowed from Old Norse), possibly developed from
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Index

Troll (slang)
Troll doll
Troll (disambiguation)
Trolls (film)

John Bauer
Nordic folklore
Norse mythology
Old Norse
Scandinavian
Christianized
werewolf
jötunn
Middle High German
philologist
Vladimir Orel
Proto-Germanic
Middle High German
jötnar
Prose Edda
Skáldskaparmál
skald
Bragi Boddason
Old Norse
jǫtuns
vǫlu
corpse-fiord
John Lindow
Hrungnir
skald

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