Nagel, Thunder of the Trolls

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The barbarian stride still as much as he could, not breathing to keep himself hidden from his prey, he wait and wait and when he was on his reach he leap out and shove his hand on his head and ruffle faster and faster until the hair was covering his eyes "hahahaha you can't escape now"

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💋 — kissing

💄 — makeup

👾 — video games

🎵 — singing

💃 — dancing

🎹 — playing an instrument

🌷 — taking care of living things

🌲 — surviving in the wilderness

👊 — fighting

😇 — following rules

🍳 — cooking

🍼 — taking care of children

🎁 — giving presents to others

🎉 — hosting parties

💌 — romance/flirting

🎨 — art

🍀 — luck

⚽️  — sports

🏊 — swimming

🚗 — driving

🔮 — magic

🔎 — investigating

🔫 — long range weapons

💣 — explosives

🔪 — melee weapons

🔬 — scientific pursuits

🚿 — hygiene

💰 — finance

🌍 — knowledge of the world

👻 — communing with the paranormal

📚 — reading

🔧 — engineering/mechanics

⌛️ — time management

📥 — organization

🍺 — alcohol tolerance

🚴 — riding a bike

🎭 — performance art/acting

⚓️ — sailing

In the English language media I’ve seen trolls are generally depicted as big and stupid, though occasionally they’ll just be small and primitive.

And don’t get me wrong, we also have that here in Scandinavia as seen in the Norwegian movie Troll Hunter.

But trolls from nordic folklore are a lot more nuanced than what modern English language media would lead you to believe.

In folklore they are a sort of hidden nature people with cultures that varies between countries and towns. They can be cruel or kind. In Norway they can smell the blood of Christians and eat people, while in Denmark they don’t mind Christians but can’t stand the sound of church bells and will often move at the first sign of a church being build.

They’re also closely entangled with humans. Trolls steal human babies so they can raise them to go places trolls can’t (in Denmark at least), but leave their own babies with the humans assuming humans would find use for someone with a troll’s strength and abilities.

And that’s why in more modern troll media for adults they’re often used as a sympathetic allegory for people who feel wrong and out of place.

You got the Swedish movie Border from 2018 about a woman who couldn’t feel more wrong. People think she’s ugly and weird and she can’t even have sex because there’s something wrong with her genitalia.

But then she meets a man who looks like her and he slowly reveals that they’re both trolls and the only reason she feels weird is because she’s trying to live the life of a human. She’s a perfectly normal troll. It even turns out that troll men give birth and her “weird genitalia” is meant to impregnate, not be pregnant.

There’s also the band De Underjordiske (The Underworldly which is an old Danish word for otherworldly people that live under ground like trolls and dwarves) from Denmark who have the song Trold about Nordic people in general feeling off because we’re forest trolls who long to return to nature, but also Under Skyggernes Kniv (Under the Knife Of Shadows) about a person asking a troll that has lived their whole life under ground to not be afraid and come up into the sunlight and meet people and the video shows a person who appears to be dressing up as a woman for the first time and trying to live an authentic life.

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