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"Three Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale [1] collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. [2]
The troll in this story is based on the troll from the Three Billy Goats Gruff fairy tale.However, in this story, no goats ever cross the troll's bridge and he is forced to survive on fish that he catches from the river.
This is a parody of the Billy Goats Gruff folktale, which satirizes "the masochistic tendencies of modern American liberal morality". The three Billy Goats and the Troll all attempt to take the blame for the situation and end up in a mass brawl which results in them falling off the bridge.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: When a troll threatens to eat up the billy goats who want to eat the grass on the other side of the bridge, the biggest billy goat is the one who teaches the troll a lesson he'll never forget.
"Three Billy Goats Gruff" "The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Who Were Supposed to Go Up to the Mountain Pasture to Fatten Up" (Nunn.); "The Three Billy Goats who went up into the Hills to get Fat" (Br. 15) 41: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne: AT 425: 4 "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon" ibid. (Nunn.); (Br. 27); (Str. & Martens 22) 42
There's a mention of a bridge where a troll charges one penny to cross, or one hundred dollars if you have a billy goat, followed by the comment that trolls may not be smart, but they do have long memories. If anybody's got a copy and can look it up, it would be worth mentioning.JDZeff 03:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Gruffs: servants of Summer and the origin of the Three Billy Goats Gruff story, complete with a reputation for killing trolls, with the heads, fur, and legs of goats but the torso and arms of a man. They increase in size, much as the storybook version, until the Eldest Gruff, a small being of massive magical power.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: According to the novel Peter & Max, all three have the first name of William. In the graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall, it is revealed that they were enchanted by Frau Totenkinder, in order to eliminate a bridge troll that was causing problems for a village that won her favor, back in the Homelands.