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And now the lassie began to look about her and to think of how she might free the Prince, but nowhere did she see a sign of life. Then she sat herself down right under the castle windows, and as soon as the sun went down, out they came, trolls and witches, red-eyed, long-nosed, hunch-backed hags, tumbling over each other, scolding, hurrying and scurrying hither and thither.
But he pursued them, and when they were within a few steps of a small door in the hillside, the one dropped the maiden, and the three of them turned at bay. And the damsel ran shrieking away down the hill. The trolls had dark thin faces, with curly black hair and fierce black eyes, and their rage was horrible to see.
Then he lustily trolls As he onward strolls, A rollicking song for the saving of souls. When the wind doth blow, With the coming of snow, There's a place by the fire For the fatherly friar, And a crab in the bowl for his heart's desire."
The Bride's mother then repeated her question to the goat family, who denied any knowledge of the Trolls with a series of terrified bleats. "There is only you, then," said the Bride's mother to the old horse. "You have served us faithfully, and we have been kind masters to you. Tell me: do you know anything of Terli or the Wood-Trolls?" "I do," said the old horse with dignity.
Robert Beverley described them in 1705: The Indian invention of weirs in fishing is mightily improved by the English, besides which, they make use of seines, trolls, casting nets, setting nets, hand fishing and angling and in each find abundance of diversion.
There were the long line that had noosed me, the earthen drum with its dry skin head, the raw hide thongs we had been bound with, and the food and drink; and that was all save what weapons lay round the slain, and the bodies of the two good greyhounds. "These are but men, and not trolls as one might well think," I said, looking on those who lay before us.
She then went up to one of the Trolls and pulled him gently by the sleeve. He did not look up, but his pen slightly slackened its speed. "What do you want?" he enquired in an uninterested voice. "Make haste, for I have no time to spare!" "What rude people they all are!" thought the Princess. "The Sea-Troll said you would tell me how to find my golden shoe," she continued aloud.
May Valhalla refuse me and Hela take me; may I be hunted like a fox from earth to earth; may trolls torment me and wizards sport with me o' night; may my limbs shrivel and my heart turn to water; may my foes overtake me, and my bones be crushed across the doom-stone if I fail in one jot from this my oath that I have sworn!
When he sees a great flock of them fluttering over the water, he suspects that the objects of his pursuit are there, feeding from below on the squid, the shiners, or the skip-jack, on which the gulls are feeding from above. So the fisherman sails as fast as possible in that direction, wishing to drag his trolls through the school of fish while they are still hungry.
From that day forward he became poorer and poorer, until he was reduced to absolute beggary. This story exemplifies every point that had had interested us in this discussion: the need of the Trolls for human help, the refusal of food, fairy gratitude, and the conditions involved in the acceptance of supernatural gifts.
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