Tröll
Also known as: jötnar, risar, þursar, tröllkona, kerling
Basic account
Icelandic category of giant beings: caught out at sunrise they become the rocks of the landscape.
Account
Half the strange rocks in Iceland are trolls who misjudged the sunrise.
Motifs
- Turned to stone
- Attached to a real place
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What is disputed
What the word tröll denotes is the live argument.
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Sources
- Jón Árnason, Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri, 1862, compiled with Guðbrandur Vigfússon
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