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" Love-Sick Troll Women and Giant Mixes: Trolls are known to have been in Iceland from the time of settlement, and probably long before in Icelandic references from the Middle Ages, a distinct difference is made between trolls on the one hand and Giants on the other. The latter were the wisest men, with good intent, slow, well behaved, and extremely knowledgeable, though they could be unruly if attacked. Trolls, however, were ill natured, wild and generally rather stupid, those who were a mixture of the two were called Giant mixes, one of these was Bergdor DoraLfsson who lived in Blafell but is buried in Haukadatur. A Women's realm generally exists with trolls and many examples can be seen in cliffs where troll men are smaller and punier than the troll women. some of the men were lazy and even more stupid than the troll women. References agree that immediately around 1400 many Icelandic trolls died out and only femal individuals were left. After that there was a great deal of trickery because troll women ordered young men to make love to them in their caves, and thus tried to maintain the troll race in the North of Iceland, in Bleiksmyrardalur. Troll women knew how to lengthen men to make their stature more suitable to theirs. The tirck to this was to daub the man with rancid buter or cod liver oil and stretch him over a fire. The most famous of those who landed in this was named Jon Loppufostrs, who is buried at Allugitadir in Finoskadalur. It is said that his head reached to the ridge of the church whereas he was of average height before. The trolls are in many ways the opposite of the delicate and well behaved Elf race, they are quite wild - since the early days, it has beeen believed that people who go wild with range can rampage and become trolls, such an event happened at a sports contest in Floi Parish early on in the history of Iceland, when a farmer's daughter named Jora could not stand watching her father's horse lose in a hosre fight. This Jora, wh
082712-197
" Love-Sick Troll Women and Giant Mixes: Trolls are known to have been in Iceland from the time of settlement, and probably long before in Icelandic references from the Middle Ages, a distinct difference is made between trolls on the one hand and Giants on the other. The latter were the wisest men, with good intent, slow, well behaved, and extremely knowledgeable, though they could be unruly if attacked. Trolls, however, were ill natured, wild and generally rather stupid, those who were a mixture of the two were called Giant mixes, one of these was Bergdor DoraLfsson who lived in Blafell but is buried in Haukadatur. A Women's realm generally exists with trolls and many examples can be seen in cliffs where troll men are smaller and punier than the troll women. some of the men were lazy and even more stupid than the troll women. References agree that immediately around 1400 many Icelandic trolls died out and only femal individuals were left. After that there was a great deal of trickery because troll women ordered young men to make love to them in their caves, and thus tried to maintain the troll race in the North of Iceland, in Bleiksmyrardalur. Troll women knew how to lengthen men to make their stature more suitable to theirs. The tirck to this was to daub the man with rancid buter or cod liver oil and stretch him over a fire. The most famous of those who landed in this was named Jon Loppufostrs, who is buried at Allugitadir in Finoskadalur. It is said that his head reached to the ridge of the church whereas he was of average height before. The trolls are in many ways the opposite of the delicate and well behaved Elf race, they are quite wild - since the early days, it has beeen believed that people who go wild with range can rampage and become trolls, such an event happened at a sports contest in Floi Parish early on in the history of Iceland, when a farmer's daughter named Jora could not stand watching her father's horse lose in a hosre fight. This Jora, wh