Norway is troll country. Oh sure, the electronic music and pickled fish are nice too, but it’s the region’s indigenous populations of hulking, deformed hill monsters that captivate our imaginations and draw in millions of tourists a year.*
Generally speaking, trolls are hulking, hairy repugnant brutes with a penchant for destruction and a lethal weakness to sunlight. By day, they rest up in their underground lairs and mountain caves. By night, they wander and rampage through the wilderness, occasionally encountering humans – which they may eat, ignore or bestow with riches, depending on their temperament.
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