I empathise with Helgard! Trolls don't have the respect they had in the Scandinavian countries where the proverbs go, "as honest as a troll" and "I have troll blood and know what's what!" Trolls never lied and could never be deceived. They were interrupted doing normal things such as laundry or weaving or tending cattle, and there is no record of a troll ever entering politics, evangelizing, gambling with other people's money, or otherwise being a nuisance. They did swap babies with princesses, but that was more because they delighted in golden curls than from any desire to interfere with the royal succession by installing one of their own kin. Except for the baby swapping (which they didn't consider theft), they didn't hurt humans nearly as much as humans hurt them... and calumny is perhaps the unkindest cut of all. Carolly