The Genre of Trolls - Doria

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13) in ánnan påjk råka två gránna mámselder tär på vejin [vid Isomäkiberget]. tå an ha
gá åm dem, så tåu an åpp in stein å kasta bákett dem. mámseldran vart tå föárga på an
å lága, så an int hitta heim élu vita vart åt e var an jikk in i skåujin, men hitta int ut tíbak,
fö an va skåuks taji. an hört kérrjuli å fåltsji, såm råupa ett an; men an va int stånd
til svar éli se dem. tå an ha gai in pa dagar, så råka an mámseldren ijénn tå bad an dem,
he dem sku vis an på véjin. tem sa tå: “du sku int ha vári ílak, så sku du int ha bihöva va
jär. men tå du béder nu, så ska du slipp jan, å så fösvánn dem, å påjtsjin va bára fast i
lánnsvéjin. (SLS 22: 16–17)
13) Another boy met two fine damsels there on the road [by the Great Hill]. When he
had passed them, he picked up a stone and threw it after them. The damsels were then
angry with him and made sure he didn’t find a way home or know in which direction it
was. He went into the forest, but couldn’t find his way back, for he was taken by the
forest. He heard cart wheels and the people calling for him; but he wasn’t able to respond
or see them. After he had walked a couple of days, he met the damsels again.
Then he asked them to show him to the road. Therefore they said: “you shouldn’t have
been naughty, then you wouldn’t have had to be here, but since you’re asking now,
you’ll get out of here[”], and they disappeared, and the boy was just stuck on the main
road.
Like the girl abducted by the trolls (text 6), the boy can hear the sounds of
the everyday world, but he is unable to see it; in this respect the texts agree.
Yet his longing for home is undiminished; the enchantment brings nothing
positive, it is rather the opposite of Paradise, and it is more related to the
physical blindness in Mark chapter 8 (text 11) due to the negative evaluation.
The boy finally abases himself and asks the fine damsels to guide him home
when he meets them in the forest. Somewhat grudgingly they grant his
request after reproaching him for his uncouth behaviour, and as they once
enchanted him, they also disenchant him—they fill the function of the
parson and Ananias as well—and he finds himself standing by the road.
Whether his experience has converted him into a polite gentleman is left
unsaid, but it is apparent that he enjoys no hallowing of the Pauline sort;
he returns to the human world with the same status as he left it, but if he
was indeed reformed, he becomes a better man. In any case, he has received
forgiveness for his transgression.
The prime similarity between Saul and the boy consists in their position
as the harassers of their respective enchanters: Saul persecuted the followers
of Christ, and thus Christ himself (text 12), the boy tried to stone the damsels.
The scheme of the latter narrative might be:
Intertextuality as Ideological Critique