More about Trolls

We went to an onboard lecture about trolls.  You wouldn't believe how often the subject of trolls comes up, in the written materials and on guided tours.  They are treated as if they actually exist!  I believe the lady who gave the lecture is a professor, not of trollology, but of archeology.  She had given a previous lecture on the wildlife of Norway and trolls seemed to fit into that category.  Some of her stories were quite amusing.

The first known troll goes back many hundreds of years

The speaker always emphasizes that they are not only huge, lumpy and ugly but also stupid.  A tough combination.

It's a little hard to see, but in the foreground is a beautiful princess who has been captured by the troll family in front of her. The mother (the smallest one) is telling the princess that she must pick one of her sons to marry.  And isn't she lucky because they are all so intelligent and handsome.  Only a mother...

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