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Troll (Norwegian and Swedish), trolde (Danish) is a designation for several types of human-like supernatural beings in Scandinavian folklore. [27] They are mentioned in the Edda (1220) as a monster with many heads. [28] Later, trolls became characters in fairy tales, legends and ballads. [29]
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Creatures found in the legends and folktales of North Germanic peoples. Subcategories ... Pages in category "Scandinavian ...
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...
Hastur as he appears in The King in Yellow.. In Chambers' The King in Yellow (), a collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign".
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The American graphic novel Gods of Asgard by Erik Evensen is an adaptation of several of the Norse myths. Gods of Asgard was awarded a Xeric grant in 2007. The comic miniseries Hammer of the Gods by Michael Avon Oeming and Mark Wheatley, from Insight Studios Group, 2001, uses the world of the Norse myths as a setting.
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