It’s not uncommon to find trolls petrified like this in our Norwegian woods.
When I was a child found a troll witch near our grandparents cabin in the woods.
Her name was Pompeliposa, some call her Pomperipossa, and she used to eat children, but one day she gorged herself so much that she couldn’t make it home in time and she was turned to stone in the sunlight.
That head is much larger than this though, like 1.5 meters in height.
Trolls used to be ubiquitous in Scandinavia belonging to the genus *Trollum Scandināvia* of which the *Large Norwegian Forest Troll* is the only remaining species alive today.
*Danish Marsh Trolls* and *Swedish Cave Trolls* are believed to have gone extinct as late as the 1500 AD in the case of danish trolls and the last swedish troll is believed to have been killed by a Volvo on Highway 97 in 1992. The latter has not been confirmed as the troll took off after the incident and only a bloody foot was later found.
Trolls are a species of pleistocene megafauna, that fed on much the same as bears and being a direct ecological competitor.
A fully grown human is not generally considered prey to troll, but children have been and remain a staple of trolls that come into contact with human settlements.
This is particularly true for elderly female trolls that lack the power to kill Elk and other large prey.
Trolls are allergic to sunlight and will die quickly if exposed to full midday sunlight.
Their skin will then undergo rapid change, leading to the stone like appearance such as the one in the picture above.
If travelling through troll country it is advised to sing and laugh cheerfully as trolls have very sensitive ears and hate the sound of merryment
Most norwegians living in untouched forests, they are very common in the southern forests as they are dense and vast yet close to towns
Well, they do explode when the sun comes up so..
Other than trolls, what other types of creatures exist in Norwegian folklore?
Goblins, giants, elves, dwarves?
Eventyrskogen had a few and Trollpikken if ya know what I mean
Just the ones i’ve killed.
A quick reminder of paragraph 87 for Norwegians fond of their freedom: the number of trolls we have seen is zero, and silly foreigners should not be so impolite as to suggest something else.
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It’s not uncommon to find trolls petrified like this in our Norwegian woods.
When I was a child found a troll witch near our grandparents cabin in the woods.
Her name was Pompeliposa, some call her Pomperipossa, and she used to eat children, but one day she gorged herself so much that she couldn’t make it home in time and she was turned to stone in the sunlight.
That head is much larger than this though, like 1.5 meters in height.
Trolls used to be ubiquitous in Scandinavia belonging to the genus *Trollum Scandināvia* of which the *Large Norwegian Forest Troll* is the only remaining species alive today.
*Danish Marsh Trolls* and *Swedish Cave Trolls* are believed to have gone extinct as late as the 1500 AD in the case of danish trolls and the last swedish troll is believed to have been killed by a Volvo on Highway 97 in 1992. The latter has not been confirmed as the troll took off after the incident and only a bloody foot was later found.
Trolls are a species of pleistocene megafauna, that fed on much the same as bears and being a direct ecological competitor.
A fully grown human is not generally considered prey to troll, but children have been and remain a staple of trolls that come into contact with human settlements.
This is particularly true for elderly female trolls that lack the power to kill Elk and other large prey.
Trolls are allergic to sunlight and will die quickly if exposed to full midday sunlight.
Their skin will then undergo rapid change, leading to the stone like appearance such as the one in the picture above.
If travelling through troll country it is advised to sing and laugh cheerfully as trolls have very sensitive ears and hate the sound of merryment
In a field near a friend’s house is a big rock shaped like a foot, called “The Troll’s Foot.” This is [the story of how it got there](https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011110908110?page=67) (“Fløtt Fløan”).
Most trolls resort at Hunderfossen
Most norwegians living in untouched forests, they are very common in the southern forests as they are dense and vast yet close to towns
Well, they do explode when the sun comes up so..
Other than trolls, what other types of creatures exist in Norwegian folklore?
Goblins, giants, elves, dwarves?
Eventyrskogen had a few and Trollpikken if ya know what I mean
Just the ones i’ve killed.
A quick reminder of paragraph 87 for Norwegians fond of their freedom: the number of trolls we have seen is zero, and silly foreigners should not be so impolite as to suggest something else.