{"id":1354,"date":"2016-02-25T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:12:36","slug":"trolls-of-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2016\/02\/25\/trolls-of-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolls of Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A troll attacking a church in Valby. (Photo courtesy of Thomas Angermann at Flickr.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Did you know Danmark<\/b> is full of trolde<\/b> [trolleh] (trolls)? Ads often want to tell turister<\/b> (tourists) a \u201dmodern\u201d story about Danish design and H.C. Andersen, so if you haven\u2019t seen en<\/b> trold<\/b> in the streets of Copenhagen, it\u2019s probably not your fault! \ud83d\ude42 Trolls, however, have been around since vikingetiden <\/b>(the Viking age) \u2013 not only in the bjerge<\/b> (mountains) of Norge og Sverige<\/b> (Norway and Sweden), but also in the Danish skove<\/b> (forests), heder<\/b> (moors) and enge<\/b> (meadows)\u2026<\/p>\n

Danish trolls liked to kidnap women and sometimes men. This was called at bjergtage<\/b> (\u201dto mountain-take\u201d), as the troll would bring his offer<\/b> (victim) to his h\u00f8j<\/b> (mound). If the human ever escaped, she would never be the same again! Tiden<\/b> (Time) passed differently among trolls, so maybe all her venner<\/b> (friends) would be dead. In Gjern<\/a> in Jutland there is a nice hilly area with a real\u00a0troldh\u00f8j<\/b> you can climb. Pas p\u00e5 trolden! <\/b>(Beware of the troll!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Danish trolls hated kirker<\/b> (churches) and in some places you can see huge sten<\/b> (stones) that almost hit the church! \u00d8v!<\/b> (d#mn!) the troll must have shouted. Sometimes trolls tried to spice up things a bit by swapping a human baby with their own troldunge<\/b> (troll kid). This unnatural kid was called a skifting<\/b>. People i middelalderen <\/b>(in the Middle-Ages) feared getting a skifting<\/b>, since it was stupid and would just \u00e6de og \u00e6de <\/b>(eat and eat).<\/p>\n

I recently had to do some troll research (yeah!), and here\u2019s a very Danish troll story I found:<\/p>\n

In Holme in the \u00c5rhus area a farmer woman was visited by a troll, who told her: I dag gifter Store Bjerg sig med Lille Bjerg, l\u00e5n mig en t\u00f8nde \u00f8l!<\/b> (Today Big Mountain is marrying Little Mountain, borrow me a barrel of beer!) The troll was shocked to see that there were kors<\/b> (Christian crosses) painted on the woman\u2019s barrels. The woman wiped away the cross from a barrel, and gave it to the troll. Three days later it returned to thank her with a barrel of high quality troll \u00f8l<\/b> (beer)! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A couple of links:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Denmark is famous for its Gj\u00f8l troll dolls \u2013 if you\u2019re into that kind of stuff, take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Here<\/a> you can see nice drawings of many Danish creatures, including Elves and nisser<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 there\u2019s also some Danish text you could try to read\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Did you know Danmark is full of trolde [trolleh] (trolls)? Ads often want to tell turister (tourists) a \u201dmodern\u201d story about Danish design and H.C. Andersen, so if you haven\u2019t seen en trold in the streets of Copenhagen, it\u2019s probably not your fault! \ud83d\ude42 Trolls, however, have been around since vikingetiden (the Viking age) \u2013…<\/p>\n

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