- terms,
including risi, þurs (or thurs) and
troll if male and gýgr or
tröllkona if female. The jötnar
typically dwell across boundaries from the gods...
-
Sturluson in the
Prose Edda
names his
father as Odin. Járnsaxa is
named as a
tröllkona in the Nafnaþulur,
while in Skáldskaparmál
chapter 21, she is identified...
-
Tunnel 1993 10,600
Kvineshei Tunnel 1943 9065 Hægebostad
Tunnel 1943 8474
Trollkona Tunnel 1987 8043
Ulriken Tunnel 1964 7670 Majorstuen-Hasle Oslo Metro...
- role in
Nordic mythology,
where they are
referred to as gýgr, íviðja and
tröllkona.
While these terms are
often glossed as "giantess", in
texts containing...
- than
eight kilometer long
Trollkona Tunnel,
opened in 1987, the
route reaches lower Bergsdal and Dale (Vaksdal).
Trollkona had
become necessary due to...
-
shifted deeper into the
bedrock (through the 8-kilometre (5.0 mi) long
Trollkona tunnel), the E16
highway partly took over
abandoned tunnels and rail tracks...
- Víga-Glúmsson (Vígf) Víglundr Þorgrímsson (VíglÞ) Vǫlu-Steinn (VSt) Ýma
trǫllkona (Ýma) Þjalar-Jón
Svipdagsson (ÞjJ) Þjóðólfr Arnórsson (ÞjóðA) Þjóðólfr...
-
carrying a
frightening "witch" (Lang. tr.) or "troll-wife" (Icelandic:
tröllkona). The
witch boarded ship,
snatched away the baby and ****umed the queen's...
- bed
during the king's absence. In a while, a
giantess (or Icelandic:
tröllkona 'troll-woman' in the original) came to visit,
addressing Ingiborg as her...
