Emerging from Scandinavian mythology, trolls are contradictory creatures: fleshy in their desires but turning to stone in sunlight, as large as slumbering mountains or small enough to help you with your washing, charmingly charmless or genuine threat. They lurk in pine forests and peat bogs, overrunning homesteads, abducting princesses and generally nagging society with their troublesome presence.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries these folktales were collected from manuscript and oral traditions and circulated in printed collections. In modern times they have emerged in fantasy literature and popular movies. Immortalised in the artworks of Theodor Kittelsen, John Bauer and Erik Werenskiold, this beautiful little book follows their journey from the dense forests of Norway to Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Size: 156 x 197mm (hardback)
Pages: 96
Publisher: The British Library