beingTrollBeings · Myth & storyA being of Norse and later Scandinavian story, often of stone, hill, or road. Not a generic ogre and not a Bigfoot.Norse traditionTroll appears in Norse tradition.Eddic verse in the Poetic Edda names trǫll among hostile other-beings beside thurs speech. A named troll class in that corpus, not a later fairy-tale bridge-troll dump and not every jotunn flatten.from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesPoetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.