Forum: Bryce


Subject: So, what's a troll to you?

brittmccary opened this issue on Nov 17, 2003 ยท 16 posts


brittmccary posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 6:31 PM

GROINGRINDER - there is an old, old Norwegian fairy tale of the three Goats who walked towards the mountains for the summer, - but before they got there, they had to cross a bridge. But under the bridge, lived a big, bad troll.... :) It's kind of interesting too, - I've tried to find the origin of them. But they have to be older than dirt, - and probably part of the old norse underworld. Our old "nisse" (santa) stems from that, at least. The trolls were modernized in the 1800's. Henrik Ibsen lets the meanest troll of them all ("Dovregubben", - lives in the largest mountain area in Norway) meet Peer Gynt, and the old troll says that "in the old days the trolls had more than one head.. at least 3" Scary stuff! lol