Do the Swedes have a distinct type of troll as well? everything i've read so far trying to find out (i'm writing an RPG supplement that uses a lot of Scandinavian folklore) just seems to gloss over Sweden's troll folklore. sadly the Danish ones are also kinda thin on details in the stuff i've found too.
one big thing i've had problems with is the names.. it seems like "troll" is more of a generic name, do the different types have different names? even if just ones given to them by folklorists to tell them apart? (would be a big help, since sadly the game already has "trolls" in the D&D style.. which have little in common with the Scandinavian versions. different names would help separate them out.)
Art wise i love the work of John Bauer in depicting trolls though..
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Do the Swedes have a distinct type of troll as well? everything i've read so far trying to find out (i'm writing an RPG supplement that uses a lot of Scandinavian folklore) just seems to gloss over Sweden's troll folklore. sadly the Danish ones are also kinda thin on details in the stuff i've found too.
one big thing i've had problems with is the names.. it seems like "troll" is more of a generic name, do the different types have different names? even if just ones given to them by folklorists to tell them apart? (would be a big help, since sadly the game already has "trolls" in the D&D style.. which have little in common with the Scandinavian versions. different names would help separate them out.)
Art wise i love the work of John Bauer in depicting trolls though..