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Updated: June 7, 2025
It is told that Halvor, a typical good-for-nothing fellow and groveler-in-the-ashes, has arrived at a castle inhabited by a princess and a three-headed troll. The princess warns Halvor to beware of the monster, but he decides to await the troll's arrival. Halvor is hungry and asks for meat to eat.
Sir Owen thanked him, put the string about his neck, and stood watching the troll as he limped, faint and wounded, into the mound that was his home. Then, picking up his lance, Sir Owen mounted his horse, and rode forward through the wood, thinking of this strange adventure.
'A fool whose head I will rase from his shoulders when I am hale again, snapped Sir Kay, as he was borne away to his bed. Then into the hall came a troll, and after the troll came a knight dressed all in white armour, who, going towards the king, knelt at his feet. 'Sir, the knight said, 'I would that ye make me a knight. 'Of what lineage have ye come? asked the king.
Thou must come and sup with us to-night. Na, na, I'll take no refusal dost hear? I will not. And a word o' persuasion i' thy ear, comrade: Mistress Lemon hath been dead this twelvemonth, comrade. Ah ha! Wilt a-come the now? That's well. And thou shalt hear that lass o' mine troll thee "Jog on, jog on," and "Mistress mine, where art thou roaming?" and "Listen, Robin, while I woo."
"I could wish there were some surer sign of that," said Jurgen. "I would have preferred that the pavilion and the decapitated Troll King had vanished with a peal of thunder and an earthquake and such other phenomena as are customary. Instead, nothing is changed except that the woman who was talking to me a moment since now lies at my feet in a very untidy condition.
By following the troll's advice, Sigurdur won Margaret, the dean's daughter. This is another story about a troll that comes on Christmas Eve and harms people only when they expose themselves after sunset.
At last they thought of telling the king that he had been boasting he was man enough to set the king's daughter free whom the Troll had long since carried away into the hill if he only chose. The king called the lad before him, and said he had heard what the lad had said, so now he must go and do it.
It is he who delivered me from the Troll, and he is the one whom I will have. Ritter Red swore that he was the man who had saved her, but the King said: 'He who delivered my daughter must have some token in proof of it.
Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast.
Such is my luck with craft as though I had grasped a viper by the tail, in the belief that I had seized its snout... I have been finely treated... Not only have I been betrayed by all of you who have thought such thoughts of me, but now some troll has got into me and turned me false to myself so that I cannot give you punishment for your treason!
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