The Genre of Trolls - Doria

When they came down there was a large room there and lamps lit up the table and the
wall. The old woman did what she could and delivered the hill troll’s woman. When the
child was born, she pronounced, as we usually do, the Lord’s blessing over it. When the
hill troll heard that, it said: “What’s to become of this child, when a Christian woman has
delivered it!” When all was finished and the old woman was going away, the hill troll said:
“You won’t find your way home, I’ll follow you”[.] She was now on her way, but then the
hill troll said: “First I’ll give you payment for coming to help my wife, come here to the
chest to get it!” She went and the hill troll said that she should spread out her apron. She
did that, and then the hill troll scooped as much as possible into it of what she thought
[was] shavings. She could only take it, and he laid as much as he could cram into her apron
with full measure. When she couldn’t take any more he said: “I’ll follow you”, and they
went. When she came home, she thought to herself: “What do I do with this[”] and threw
all of it in the fire. But as soon as they came into the fire, they turned into chains of gold
and other valuable treasures, and she hurried to draw them back out of the fire with the
poker as fast as possible.
12) På Antus var pigan i gården, “gammelSåndån”, och måkade ihop dyngan undan korna.
Bäst det var vart det bara blanka silver pengar. Hon vurt rädd och sprang bort. Om natten
kom trollet och sa åt husbonden, att han sku ta bort den ko, som var sist i nötset för att
det vurt vått på bordet var gång hon lät sitt vatten rinna. (SLS 280: 362)
12) At Antus the maid in the house, “old Såndån”, was clearing out the dung of the cows.
Suddenly it just turned into shiny silver money. She was afraid and ran away. At night
the troll came and told the master of the household to remove the cow standing farthest
away in the cow-shed because the table got wet every time she let her urine flow.
13) En kvinna från Kvevlaks säges ha varit gift med ett bergtroll. De levde samman i sju år
och kvinnan hade ett gossebarn med trollet. När de sju åren var gångna, försvann trollet
utan att sedan låta höra av sig. (SLS 215, 248: 80)
13) A woman from Kvevlax is said to have been married to a hill troll. They lived together
for seven years and the woman had a boy with the troll. When the seven years had elapsed,
the troll disappeared without any further news from it.
14) Ett stycke in mot Esse-skogen finnes ett af stora flata stenhällor bestående berg, som
kallas Blå-berget. Der sägas trollen hålla sitt “plenum plenorum” midsommarkvällen. De
roa sig derunder med danser, vilda, bullersamma, under det spelmännen sitta i grantopparna
och spela flöjt. En gammal vallgumma hade gått vilse en midsommarkväll och kommit
dit bland trollen. Hon kvarhölls der tills man ringde helig på lördagskvällen, då hon
af ett troll beledsagades till skogskanten, der hon lemnades ensam. Här fann hon sin eftersökta
boskaps hjord, men sitt förstånd hade gumman förlorat. Hon talade ständigt, men
oklart och utan sammanhang om sitt besök på trollens samlingsplats. (R I 86: 2–3)
14) Some distance toward the Esse forest there is a hill consisting of large flat rocks which
is called Blue Hill. There the trolls are said to hold their “plenum plenorum” on Midsummer’s
Eve. They amuse themselves with dances, wild, noisy, while the musicians sit in the
tops of the spruces playing flute. An old shepherdess had gone astray on a Midsummer’s
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