Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big and strong

Motif

Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big and strong.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F455.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Icelandic*Boberg
NorwegianSolheim Register 18, Hartmann 48, 52, 65.

Within the index

Filed under Appearance of trolls. (Cf. G304.1.)

Filed beside it

Trolls the size of ten or twelve year old child Trolls are black (dark)Trolls dressed in skins Troll in human form Trolls frightful Troll with snout for nose Troll in animal form (cat, dog, pig, hen)Troll as whirlwind Great age of trolls. Often centuries old

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