IcelandicIcelandFolklore
Tröll
Also known as: jötnar, risar, þursar, tröllkona, kerling
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Icelandic category of giant beings: caught out at sunrise they become the rocks of the landscape.
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Half the strange rocks in Iceland are trolls who misjudged the sunrise.
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Sources
- Jón Árnason, Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri, 1862, compiled with Guðbrandur Vigfússon
- Sagnagrunnur, the mapped database of Icelandic legends at Árnastofnun
- Jacqueline Simpson, Icelandic Folktales and Legends, 1972
- Ólína Þorvarðardóttir, Álfar og tröll, 1995
- Terry Gunnell on legend and landscape