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Nevertheless it was not alone the thought of trolls and elfins that disturbed him. At that time the wild boar and the wolf were denizens of the forest wherein he walked animals which would indeed be welcomed in the daylight by a band of hunters with their spears and hounds, but which might give some trouble to a youth appearing alone in their midst on a dark night.
Likewise the globe-flower has been designated the troll-flower, from the malignant trolls or elves, on account of its poisonous qualities. On the other hand, the Bavarian peasant has a notion that the elves are very fond of strawberries; and in order that they may be good-humoured and bless his cows with abundance of milk, he is careful to tie a basket of this fruit between the cow's horns.
But when about a hundred years ago people began to improve the world in those parts, they put up a pumping station and they pumped Thames dry since which time its gods have deserted the river. The sources of the Ribble are in a lonely place up in a corner of the hills where everything has strange shapes and where the rocks make one think of trolls.
Forth from all the recesses of the air came troops of Gothic elves, trolls, fairies, sprites, and all the other romantic beings which had inspired the modern mind to novel-writing, marching or gambolling, pride in their port, defiance in their eye, mischief in their purpose, and began so vigorous an attack upon their classic visitors and critics, that the latter were glad to betake themselves to the mighty-winged Pegasus, who rapidly bore them in retreat to the present home of the Dii Majores, that point of the empyrean directly above Olympus.
But they knew, they did, that in the night it had been raised upon twelve golden pillars and that the trolls had danced and feasted under it. It was not so very pleasant to have to walk past a stone like that! Jan looked over at Katrina to see whether she was holding the little girl securely. Katrina, calm and unconcerned, walked along, chatting with one of their neighbours.
This made the old hag still more afraid. 'Oh! now he's going to roast us alive', she said, in the corner where she sat. And when the wood had burned down to glowing embers, up got the man and strode out of his house. 'Heaven bless and help us! what a stout heart you have got', said the old dame; 'don't you see we have got amongst Trolls? 'Stuff and nonsense! said the lad; 'no harm if we have.
"And I must call upon one of the trolls when we get to Trollhättan," said Gerda, shaking her head with an air of importance. "I shall walk up the locks," said Birger. "You mean that you will walk down the locks," Erik corrected him. "After this the boat will go downstairs until we reach the Göta River."
Better the bride loves to lie abed than to ride the cold wolds and seek the common deck." Now, as Skallagrim grumbled, fear gathered in his heart, he knew not of what. He began to think on trolls and goblins. It was dark in the store-room, except for a little line of light that crept through the crack of the shutter.
In popular language they are known by many names fairies, pixies, elves, brownies, peris, djinns, trolls, satyrs, fauns, kobolds, imps, goblins, good people, etc. some of these titles being applied only to one variety, and others indiscriminately to all. Their forms are many and various, but most frequently human in shape and somewhat diminutive in size.
In one aspect, the whole race of Giants and Trolls stands out in strong historical light. There can be little doubt that, in their continued existence amongst the woods, and rocks, and hills, we have a memory of the gradual suppression and extinction of some hostile race, who gradually retired into the natural fastnesses of the land, and speedily became mythic.
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