Norway Archives - Bone and Sickle

Trolls in Medieval Literature

April 27, 2026 boneandsickle ballads, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Iceland, legends, literature, medieval, Middle Ages, monsters, Norse, Norse religion, Norway, saints, storytelling, troll-cats, trolls, witchcraft, witches

Trolls, as presented in medieval literature, are vastly different from the creatures we encountered in our last episode’s collection of[…]

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Trolls (Pt. 1)

March 7, 2026 boneandsickle EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, legends, monsters, movies, Norway, trolls

Trolls in Scandinavian folklore can be a little different from what’s imagined in the rest of the world. We begin[…]

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