The Genre of Trolls - Doria

2) När man haft skäl att misstänka, att ett barn varit bortbyting, har man eldat ugnen riktigt
duktigt, tagit barnet på armarna, ställt sig framför ugnsgimanet, svängt barnet och
sagt sig ämna kasta det i lågorna i ugnen. Trollet, barnets mor har då, drifven av moderskärleken,
velat rädda sitt barn och utlämnat det riktiga barnet samt återtagit sitt. Och detta
har skett utan att den, som stå med barnet i händerna märkt det. (SLS 65: 44)
2) When one has had reason to suspect that a child is a changeling, one has heated the
oven well, taken the child in one’s arms, stood in front of the oven door, rocked the child
and said that one is going to throw it in the flames in the oven. The troll, the child’s mother
has then, driven by maternal love, wanted to save its child and [it has] returned the
real child and taken its own back. And this has happened without the one standing with
the child in her arms noticing it.
3) En kvinna hade råkat ut för ett bergtroll, som aldrig ville lämna henne i fred. Hon
tänkte då ut en list och sporde en dag bergtrollet: “vad skall jag göra åt korna mina, som
inte får gå i fred för bergtjuren?” “Du skall skaffa dig dyvelsträck, bävergäll och ålandsrot
och giva dina kor”, sade bergtrollet. Då tog kvinnan själv in det som trollet ordinerat åt
hennes kor och sedan hade han ingen makt över henne mer. En dag, när hon gick i skogen
i närheten av trollets berg, hörde hon honom säga:
“dyvelsträck, bävergäll och ålandsrot,
och tvi vale mej som dig gav bot!”
(SLS 215, 250: 80–81)
3) A woman had encountered a hill troll which never wanted to leave her alone. She invented
a trick, and one day she asked the hill troll: “What should I do about my cows
which are not left in peace by the hill bull?” “You should get asafoetida, castor and inula
helenium and give to your cows”, the hill troll said. Then the woman herself took what the
troll had prescribed for her cows, and after that he had no power over her any longer. One
day, when she was in the forest in the vicinity of the troll’s hill, she heard him say:
“asafoetida, castor and inula helenium,
and woe is me who gave you the cure!”
4) i måun ha e stjedd he in bundtjärng, såm jig i skåujin åsta sök et fårin sin, ha vali bjärgteji.
tå un kåm pu na låg hellur såm je jyst veder nygåls heimani, så tykkt un he un va pu i
hökt bjärg, såm va så brant, så un åumöyli sku kunn slipp tedan elu eis tröst freist jev se
nederet in tukan högd. men hur un nu bisinna se, så sveipa un tjåulan sin kring lårin å
sestist neder pu steinin å sa: jissus velsini me! å tängkt let e byr ga nederet, men me ti sama
fi un fötrin pu jåulin, å tå un skåda bak se et bjärji, så findist int e na. (Freudenthal 1889: 197)
4) In [the village of] Monå it has occurred that an old peasant woman who was walking in
the forest in search of her sheep was abducted. When she came onto some low rocks which
are just by the Nygård homestead, she thought she was on a high hill that was so steep that
she could not possibly escape from it or even dare to try to descend such a hill. But she
collected herself somehow, swept her skirts around her thighs and sat down on the rock
and said: Jesus bless me! and was going to start the descent, but immediately she got her
feet on the ground, and when she looked back on the hill, it no longer existed.
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