Are there any trolls Leif Sohlman Photograph by Leif Sohlman

Are there any trolls Leif Sohlman

by Leif Sohlman

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Are there any trolls Leif Sohlman

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Leif Sohlman

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Troll lives in the old forrests of the nordic countris, so it is said in the sagas and myths. One persom who has pictured this beings is John Bauer who lived in the beginning of the 20:th century. I have loved his drawing and paitings sins I was a child.
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A troll is a supernatural being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In origin, troll may have been a negative synonym for a j�tunn (plural j�tnar), a being in Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
Later, in Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized, and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on the region from which accounts of trolls stem, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them. In Norwegian folklore most trolls have tails, and some may have several heads. Their size may also vary from a few inches to several miles high, and some of the bigger ones usually have trees, moss or other plants growing on it. Different races of trolls were based on which area they live in. Traditional examples of this may be mountain trolls, forest trolls and ocean trolls (Draug). Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks, which at times may be explained as formed from a troll turning to stone upon being exposed to sunlight (though other depictions have them not turning to stone in sunlight). As one of the most famous elements of Scandinavian folklore, trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.
Later, in Scandinavian folklore, trolls become defined as a particular type of being.[6] Numerous tales about trolls are recorded, 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 contact with sunlight.[7] However, trolls are also attested as looking much the same as human beings, without any particularly hideous appearance about them, but where they differ is in that they live far away from human habitation, and, unlike the r� and n�ck�who are attested as "solitary beings", trolls generally have "some form of social organization". Where they differ, Lindow adds, is that they are not Christian, and those that encounter them do not know them. Therefore trolls were in the end dangerous, regardless of how well they may get along with Christian society, and trolls display a habit of bergtagning ('kidnapping'; literally "mountain-taking") and overrunning a farm or estate.[8]
While noting that the etymology of the word "troll" remains uncertain, John Lindow defines trolls in later Swedish folklore as "nature beings" and as "all-purpose otherworldly being[s], equivalent, for example, to fairies in Anglo-Celtic traditions" and that 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.[8]
A Scandinavian folk belief that lightning frightens away trolls and j�tnar appears in numerous Scandinavian folktales, and may be a late reflection of the god Thor's role in fighting such beings. In connection, the lack of trolls and j�tnar in modern Scandinavia is sometimes explained as a result of the "accuracy and efficiency of the lightning strokes".[9] Additionally, the absence of trolls in regions of Scandinavia are described in folklore as being a "consequence of the constant din of the church-bells". This ring caused the trolls to leave for other lands, although not without some resistance; numerous traditions relate how trolls destroyed a church under construction or lunged boulders and stones at completed churches. Large local stones are sometimes described as the product of a troll's toss.[10] 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.[7]
Lindow compares the trolls of the Swedish folk tradition to supernatural mead hall invader Grendel in the Old English poem Beowulf, and notes that "just as the poem Beowulf 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."[8]
Smaller trolls are attested as living in burial mounds and in mountains in Scandinavian folk tradition.[11] In Denmark, these creatures are recorded as troldfolk ("troll-folk"), bjergtrolde ("mountain-trolls"), or bjergfolk ("mountain-folk") and in Norway also as troldfolk ("troll-folk") and tusser.[11] Trolls may be described as small, human-like beings or as tall as men depending on the region of origin of the story.[12] James MacCulloch theorizes a connection between the Old Norse v�ttir and trolls, theorizing that both concepts may either stem from (or ultimately derive from) spirits of the dead.[13]
In Norwegian tradition, similar tales may be told about the larger trolls and the Huldrefolk ("hidden-folk") yet a distinction is made between the two. The use of the word trow 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 troll 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 worshiped. Troll could later have become specialized as a description of the larger, more menacing J�tunn-kind whereas Huldrefolk may have developed as the general term applied to smaller trolls

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