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>However, trolls are also attested as looking much the same as human beings, without any particularly hideous appearance about them, but living far away from human habitation and generally having "some form of social organization" — unlike the rå and näck, who are attested as "solitary beings". According to John Lindow, what sets them apart is that they are not Christian, and those who encounter them do not know them.
>Later, in Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized.
Are the legends of Scandinavian trolls just corrupted accounts of Norse pagans that rejected Christianization?
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>>2328153
Yes ofc. The norse were notorious for despising their own religion and coming up with, and converting to christianity before it reached them.
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>>2328221
>converting to christianity before it reached them.
I'm talking about troll folklore from after the Christianization of Scandinavia.
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Maybe, it would not be unlike the Tuatha de Dannan of Ireland being pre-Indo-European peoples who retreated to woods and hills and literally became elves.
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>>2328346
Tell me more.
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>>2328356
they beleived that some people become reincarnated as nature spirits after they die
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Trolls are probably neanderthals, the elves cro-magnon.
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>>2328153
No, this is a nonsense claim. Trolls existed in the mythology of the Norse and English before they converted.
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>>2328430
>elves are uglier than trolls
I am ok with this
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>>2328430
>the elves cro-magnon.
>the elves are early homo-sapiens
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
That's the most retarded shit ever.
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>>2328449
>2017
>believing in OOA
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>>2328454
It's literally (CURRENT YEAR) and /pol/io still wants to dispute academic consensus without sound data.
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