The Little Book of Trolls
Seiten
2025
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5518-6 (ISBN)
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5518-6 (ISBN)
Covering the earliest legends of trolls through to blockbuster movies, The Little Book of Trolls explores the fascinating history of one of folklore's most complicated creatures. This authoritative guide includes retellings of beloved and lesser-known troll tales, presented alongside beautiful historic artwork.
Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quite so much, but they remain disruptive and dangerous, even if their limited imaginations sometimes make them comic and even quite likeable.
Emerging from the earliest annals of Scandinavian mythology, trolls are contradictory creatures. They can be monstrous and large as mountains, or humble and humanoid in appearance. The accounts written in Scandinavia and Iceland in the 19th century paint trolls as creatures who kidnap, overrun farms, lurk in the dark corners of landscapes, demand human marriages, eat unsuspecting travelers, and occasionally help the people who encounter them.
Carolyne Larrington collects these stories into a delightful directory of trolls, from the medieval to the modern, and encountering kindly trolls, dangerous trolls, and stupid trolls along the way. Thoroughly researched and entertainingly written, The Little Book of Trolls is essential reading for the fantasy fan and a perfect introduction to the charmingly charmless world of trolls.
Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quite so much, but they remain disruptive and dangerous, even if their limited imaginations sometimes make them comic and even quite likeable.
Emerging from the earliest annals of Scandinavian mythology, trolls are contradictory creatures. They can be monstrous and large as mountains, or humble and humanoid in appearance. The accounts written in Scandinavia and Iceland in the 19th century paint trolls as creatures who kidnap, overrun farms, lurk in the dark corners of landscapes, demand human marriages, eat unsuspecting travelers, and occasionally help the people who encounter them.
Carolyne Larrington collects these stories into a delightful directory of trolls, from the medieval to the modern, and encountering kindly trolls, dangerous trolls, and stupid trolls along the way. Thoroughly researched and entertainingly written, The Little Book of Trolls is essential reading for the fantasy fan and a perfect introduction to the charmingly charmless world of trolls.
Carolyne Larrington is emerita professor of medieval European literature at St John's College, Oxford, specializing in old Norse and Arthurian mythology. She has previously written on Game of Thrones, fairies, and Viking mythology, and was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland for services to Icelandic literature.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | British Library Little Books ; 1 |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 190 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror |
| Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7123-5518-9 / 0712355189 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7123-5518-6 / 9780712355186 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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