norway and sweden say "hello!" modern viking style

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im gonna go wiki right now, the highest mountain of norway!
my guess is on glittertind!
"highest point: Galdhøpiggen 2,469 m"
dammit galdhøpiggen!
i have no clue what it means

and i'd really like a wooden cabin. most cabins today are too modern, theyre wooden and stuff, but theyre way too modern. my uncles cabin is like a nice little house, everything's tip top in it.
when i was little, we borrowed a nice cabin from the dad of a friend of my mothers. this cabin didnt have water or electricity siiiiiiigh

I had an idea that it could be Galdhøpiggen, but maybe mostly because it was the only Norwegian mountain name I could remember.

you dont remember
DOVRE?

dovre is more general tho, it sortof covers the whole plateau. i love the name tho. old and trollish!

when you go up there, you can understand how ancient peoples would believe that giant trolls could fit there, even trolls imagined as hundreds of metres tall. you got these classic images of trolls who grows entire forests on their heads and shoulders and stuff

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they had no idea of the limits of the mountain, not like we do now. they had never seen a map of the scandinavian peninsula. "blåner" is a name for a horizon that consists of distant misty mountains, and surely, trolls of ANY size can live in there

Dovre, oh yes of course.

But we have trolls too. (Or used to believe that.) They used to live in the forests as far as I know.

An example of Danish trolls.

http://www.tooncompany.dk/produkter/dam ... -troll.htm

(didn't know how to set the picture in).

Quite cute, right?

haha we cal those "lykketroll"

sweden has a similar "troll-culture" to yours, having trolls being mostly forest-creatures.

norway also has forest trolls, of course, described in many old fairy tales.
in general, forest trolls are more socially active, they kill people, steal stuff, live in some hut, keep lots of gold etc. they also often have several heads

the mountain troll i havent seen in any stories, other than "legends" explaining how certain mountain peaks came to be (some troll sitting down when the sun rises)

You know, when I read that the first word that popped into my head was "Republican".

Maybe we also have some stories about trolls that became a stone when the sunlight hit them (not a mountain though).
Could it be that those trolls had some seriously severe sensory issues with light?!

OMG :O
you know the whole aspie-neanderthal issue debate whatever right?
and ive had similar debates about trolls, that they may be remnants of an "ancient memory" of the neanderthal.
SEE THE LINK!?
DAMN!
we're on to something: trolls were aspies! no wonder they didnt fit into society!

Yes I remember that discussion (don't believe in it though, but the story is funny).

So... we are trolls in fact?! Hmmm I hope we are not so bad as some in the stories were
But I think about those stories about "changelings", troll children that were exchanged for human children (and if some parents got a kind "different" child, they thought it was a changeling).
The trolls as an ancient memory of neanderthals is an interesting discussion too.

But anyway, not all aspies have sensory issues with light. I don't, or that is, I don't think so... but anyway, I don't always have that great desire to sit out in the sun for hours like many others, think it easily gets too hot (but can do it sometimes, so don't know)... and then people always ask me if I'm not going to sit out in the sun, and I think it's annoying to have to be accountable for that every time... but that's just my kind of concrete aspie thought again, I guess

But yes - the riddle may be kind of solved... Aspies are in fact Neanderthal Trolls!
(And hence, we've also found out that trolls really exist, wow... )

changelings crack me up, what a cruel idea! "trollunge" may be a related term, nowadays it simply means "bad kid" but it could be what they called... slow kids "changelings"
its SO tragicomical

a friend of mine proposed a similar idea about trolls:
SOME mental/physical disabilities may appear later in life, maybe after the individual is old/wise enough to just survive. maybe there would be a 1/1000 case of a downs syndrome guy who actually survived the first winter allone, then the second, growing bearded and dirty inside the forest, antisocial and isolated.
if some "espen askeladd" walked past, and saw this guy, all hairy and dirty, running towards him "aaaaaaa!" desperate for human attention, he would surely think this to be some sort of monster, and take off running