The Genre of Trolls - Doria

mented with a theory of the intertextualized subject to cover that aspect as
well; unfortunately I have not been able to elaborate that point in this study.
It has been my ambition to promote a more holistic perspective on folklore,
folk belief and images of the supernatural by stressing the associations
between official religion and folk belief in the examples provided by my
material. For the narrators of the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, these
discourses were integrated constituents of their lives, their world views and
their stories, and in our interpretation of folklore this must be taken into
account. My investigation also points to the existence of popular conceptions
about the expression of religion; since it is not meaningful to separate
folk belief from official religion when both deal with the same themes and
structure them in similar ways, folk belief should perhaps be regarded as a
form of religion. These similarities hint at a common store of expressions
of religion, the use of which is subject to considerations as yet unexplored.
This aspect would merit further attention.
In addition, my study underlines the significance of the active construction
of genre in the creation of images of the supernatural in folk belief,
and could probably be extended to the generation of images in folklore in
general. It also indicates the crucial role of chronotopes in the construction
of narratives, and highlights the mutability and multiplicity of chronotopes
utilized in narrative, especially in ironic and parodic stories. Similarly, the
notion of unfinalizability helps to explain the relationship between man and
supranormal beings constructed in folk belief.
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