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Diss.: Åbo Akademi University. The supernatural tradition that is the object of this study, the Swedish troll tradition in Finland as documented in archived material collected between the 1850s and 1925, has previously received little scholarly attention; apart from a few articles, this is the first monograph produced on the subject, and I will therefore begin my inquiry with a description of the folklore of trolls for the benefit of readers with a comparative interest. The troll in the Swedish oral tradition in Finland is a supernatural creature primarily associated with hills and rocks in the forest, but apart from that, it is difficult, if not impossible, to give a good definition of the troll. It is often a solitary being, but it may also live with others of its kind. Judging by the sources at my disposal, it is not chiefly an empirical being — I have not been able to find reports of sightings or personal experience stories, apart from a legend told in the first person singular, but that seems to be more of a narrative strategy—but this impression may well be false due to the haphazard nature of collection. Perhaps reports of sightings never happened to be recorded, even though

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Author

Camilla Asplund Ingemark

Publisher

Åbo Akademi University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9789517652223

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Fiction