Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll?
"He lives beneath a bridge, a reference to the traditional fairy tale ""Three Billy Goats Gruff"". Ravus also makes ""Never"", which faeries in exile take in order to resist iron. These exiles are dispersed throughout the city, and Dave and Luis must deliver the glamour to them. Never can be used as a drug by humans, who can then use magic for a short time. It's highly addictive; a comparison can be drawn between it and heroin. Lolli and Dave introduce Val to ""Nevermore"", as they call it, and she, like the other squatters, is soon hooked. Ravus, despite Val's"
"Boots and the Troll Boots and the Troll is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norwegian Folktales"". An old man burned in hell. His three sons set out to seek their fortune. The two older would have nothing to do with the youngest son, whom they said was fit for nothing but to sit and poke about in ashes. The youngest brought a kneading-trough, the only thing their parents had left behind, which his brothers had not bothered with. His brothers got places under the coachman and gardener at the royal castle, and"
"Per Gynt ""Per Gynt"" () is a Norwegian fairy tale which originated in the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. It encompasses the themes of identity and relationship. ""Per Gynt"" tells the folktale of the eponymous Per Gynt and his various exploits. Per Gynt was a hunter from Kvam in Oppland. He rescues three dairy-maids from trolls and shoots the Bøyg, a troll which takes the form of a gigantic serpent and stands as a hindrance to travellers. The fairy tale is most famously recorded by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norwegian Folktales"" (""Norske Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn"") which was first"
"or child goat, mama goat and papa goat. ""Gruff"" was used as their family name in the earliest English translation, by Dasent; the original Norwegian version used the name ""Bruse"". In the story, there is almost no grass left for them to eat near where they live, so they must cross a river to get to ""sæter"" (a meadow) or hillside on the other side of a stream in order to eat and fatten themselves up. To do so, however, they must first cross a bridge, under which lives a fearsome and hideous troll, who is so territorial that he"
"as well after he tells the troll to wait for the biggest billy goat because he is the largest of the three. The third billy goat gets on the bridge, but is also stopped by the hungry troll who threatens to devour him as well. However, the third billy goat challenges the troll and knocks him off the bridge with his horns. The troll falls into the stream and is carried away by the current. From then on the bridge is safe, and all three goats are able to go to the rich fields around the summer farm in the"
"Hans attempts to lure a troll from under a bridge using three goats. The fairy tale Soria Moria Castle is one of the tales that tells about trolls being able to smell a Christian man's blood. A painting by Theodor Kittelsen based on the same fairy tale is also used as a backdrop on one of the trips they do in the film (Thomas stands in the same pose and asks his friends ""Do I look like that famous painting?""). The look of the trolls in the film is also influenced by painters like Theodor Kittelsen and John Bauer. As"
"went up a mountain. Boots and the Troll Boots and the Troll is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norwegian Folktales"". An old man burned in hell. His three sons set out to seek their fortune. The two older would have nothing to do with the youngest son, whom they said was fit for nothing but to sit and poke about in ashes. The youngest brought a kneading-trough, the only thing their parents had left behind, which his brothers had not bothered with. His brothers got places under the coachman and gardener at"
"eats anyone who tries to cross the bridge. The smallest billy goat is the first to cross and is stopped abruptly by the troll who threatens to ""gobble him up!"" However, the little goat convinces the troll to wait for his big brother to come across, because he is larger and would make for a more gratifying feast. The greedy troll agrees and lets the smallest goat cross. The medium-sized goat passes next. He is more cautious than his brother, but is also stopped by the troll and given the same threat. The second billy goat is allowed to cross"
"Mountain""). Their first obstacle down the mountain is the Troll Bridge, which is made of rotting ropes held together by frost. Though the trolls hope Bu will fall (saving them the trouble of actually going to People-land, which they do fear), he makes it safely across and the five continue down the mountain, encountering two rabbits and a squirrel (which, by comparison, are extremely large). Finally they arrive in a small Norwegian mountain village. Venturing to the nearest cottage, Bu witnesses a woman baking and eating gingerbread men. Mistaking them for flattened, cooked trolls, Bu flees the scene in horror,"
"Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Elf Hill’, a satirical description of a troll wedding. Troll Fell Troll Fell is a children's fantasy novel written by Katherine Langrish, the first in the Troll Trilogy which comprises ""Troll Fell"", ""Troll Mill"" and ""Troll Blood"". It is set in Viking Scandinavia and is centred about the eponymous mountain, which is infested with trolls. Troll Fell tells the story of young Peer Ulfsson, whose shipbuilder father has just died, and who is taken to live with his two wicked uncles, Balder and Grim, in a water mill under the shadow of Troll Fell, a mountain"
"Troll Fell Troll Fell is a children's fantasy novel written by Katherine Langrish, the first in the Troll Trilogy which comprises ""Troll Fell"", ""Troll Mill"" and ""Troll Blood"". It is set in Viking Scandinavia and is centred about the eponymous mountain, which is infested with trolls. Troll Fell tells the story of young Peer Ulfsson, whose shipbuilder father has just died, and who is taken to live with his two wicked uncles, Balder and Grim, in a water mill under the shadow of Troll Fell, a mountain inhabited by trolls. Peer’s uncles make him do all the work around the"
"of trolls, for example, the woodland and mountain trolls, which as in the film can be further categorised into subspecies. The most well-known is probably the Mountain King which is mentioned in the play ""Peer Gynt"" and its music by Edvard Grieg. The Norwegian name for Mountain King, ""Dovregubbe"", is a compound word and the first part is the same word used in the mountain range Dovrefjell, which is also where the characters meet the final troll. Other common troll descriptions from the Norwegian folklore which are used in the film include trolls having a tail, multiple heads, the ability"
"The Boy Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll The Boy Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll () is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. The troll is, as commonly depicted, not very intelligent and has poor vision, while the boy is clever, outwitting the troll to win an eating contest. A farmer sent his sons to cut wood in a forest he owned, to pay off debts. A troll threatened them as they came, one by one; the two older ones allowed themselves to be chased off, but the youngest son (known in"
"The Cat on the Dovrefjell The Cat on the Dovrefjell (also known as The Cat on the Dovre-Mountain and The Trolls and the Pussycat) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". It is Aarne–Thompson type 1161, The Bear Trainer and His Cat. A man was bringing a white bear to give to the king of Denmark, and he came to the mountain Dovre on Christmas Eve and asked a man called Halvor for shelter for the night. Halvor told him that trolls came every Christmas Eve and made such havoc that"
"Ratatoskr In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered to mean ""drill-tooth"" or ""bore-tooth"") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the eagle perched atop Yggdrasil, and the serpent Níðhöggr, who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree. Ratatoskr is attested in the ""Poetic Edda"", compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ""Prose Edda"", written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. The name ""Ratatoskr"" contains two elements: ""rata-"" and ""-toskr"". The element ""toskr"" is generally held to mean ""tusk"". Guðbrandur Vigfússon theorized that"
"lit face of the Germanic god Odin hovered above. Riders passed through scenes of seafarers and maritime villages depicting a mythological version of Norway's Viking days. Entering a marsh, the boat would come face to face with audio-animatronic depictions of a Nokken and a three-headed troll. The trolls, angered by the trespassing boat, cast a spell onto riders as the vehicle began to move backward rapidly, accelerated by hidden conveyor belts underneath the water's surface. The boats floated briskly past scenes of polar bears and living trees, before coming to a stop on the edge of another waterfall, exposing the"
"the sharp shooter scared him off. He went back, but just as he was to go below ground, the sun rose, and he shattered into bits. A discussion of the Norwegian variants in English occurs in the piece written by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen for the ""festschrift"" to Stith Thompson (1957). The antagonist may be a giant (""Rise"") instead of a troll, and indeed, Norwegian scholars often class the tale group under the title ""Risen og de tre søstre"". In some variants the hen has the habit of wandering off to lay her eggs, and the women tie a string to"
"published in 1845. The folktale also served as inspiration for Henrik Ibsen's play ""Peer Gynt"" which was published in 1867. The play appeared on stage in 1876, accompanied by incidental music by composer Edvard Grieg who composed the ""Peer Gynt Suite"". Per Gynt ""Per Gynt"" () is a Norwegian fairy tale which originated in the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. It encompasses the themes of identity and relationship. ""Per Gynt"" tells the folktale of the eponymous Per Gynt and his various exploits. Per Gynt was a hunter from Kvam in Oppland. He rescues three dairy-maids from trolls and shoots the Bøyg,"
"The Princess on the Glass Hill ""The Princess on the Glass Hill"" (in Norwegian : ""Jomfruen på glassberget"") is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". It recounts how the youngest son of three obtains a magical horse and uses it to win the princess. It is Aarne–Thompson type 530, which is named after it: the princess on the glass mountain. It is a popular type of tale, although the feats that the hero must perform in the second part, having obtaining the magical horse in the first, vary greatly. A farmer's"
"The Goat and Her Three Kids ""The Goat and Her Three Kids"" or ""The Goat with Three Kids"" () is an 1875 short story, fable and fairy tale by Romanian author Ion Creangă. Figuratively illustrating for the notions of motherly love and childish disobedience, it recounts how a family of goats is ravaged by the Big Bad Wolf, allowed inside the secured home by the oldest, most ill-behaved and least prudent of the kids. The only one of the children to survive is the youngest and most obedient, who then helps his mother plan her revenge on the predator, leading"
"Herr Magnus og Bjærgtrolden Herr Magnus og bjærgtrolden ('Sir Magnus and the Mountain Troll') is a Danish ballad (""The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad"" A 59, ""Proposal of supernatural woman rejected""; ""Danmarks gamle Folkeviser"" 48). It is attested in the nineteenth-century Denmark in only two versions, with three attestations, each of eight or nine stanzas. It is also found in Norway and Sweden (SMB 26). A supernatural maiden (a mermaid in Norway and sometimes Sweden, or a female mountain being in other Swedish versions and in Denmark) tries to woo Sir Magnus by offering generous gifts. Magnus, however, rejects"
"of) two kids ran like a goat over Besseggen» the newspaper Dagbladet reported. Besseggen is known from Henrik Ibsens play Peer Gynt. Peer tries to convince his mother, Åse, that he has ridden over Gjendineggen, now known as Besseggen, on a reindeer bull. From Act 1, Scene 1 Have you ever<br> chanced to see the Gendin-Edge?<br> Nigh on four miles long it stretches<br> sharp before you like a scythe.<br> Down o'er glaciers, landslips, scaurs,<br> down the toppling grey moraines,<br> you can see, both right and left,<br> straight into the tarns that slumber,<br> black and sluggish, more than seven<br> hundred fathoms"
"The Twelve Wild Ducks ""The Twelve Wild Ducks"" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". It is Aarne–Thompson type 451, the brothers who were turned into birds. There once was a queen who had twelve healthy sons, but no daughters. She said she would not care what happened to her sons if she could only have a daughter as white as snow and as red as blood. A troll hag told her that she would have a daughter, but the hag would have her sons as soon as the baby was"
"than what is to be found in Asbjørnsen's ""Norwegian Folktales"" (in the section entitled 'Stories from the Mountain')."" In those stories, Peer Gynt rescues the three dairy-maids from the trolls and shoots the Bøyg, who was originally a gigantic worm-shaped troll-being. Peer was known to tell tall tales of his own achievements, a trait Peer in the play inherited. The ""buck-ride"" story, which Peer tells his mother in the play's first scene, is also from this source, but, as Åse points out, it was originally Gudbrand Glesne from Vågå who did the tour with the reindeer stag and finally shot"
"is not literal. Dovre is a mountainous region in Norway, and ""gubbe"" translates into (old) man or husband. ""Gubbe"" is used along with its female counterpart ""kjerring"" to differentiate male and female trolls, ""trollgubbe"" and ""trollkjerring"". In the play, Dovregubben is a troll king that Peer Gynt invents in a fantasy. The piece is played as the title character Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters ""Dovregubbens (the troll Mountain King's) hall"". The scene's introduction continues: ""There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children"
"on the journey, substitutes her maid Brangwin. When George Webbe Dasent made his translation of these tales, in his preface he forbade children to read the last two stories, of which this was one. J. R. R. Tolkien cited this in his essay ""On Fairy-Stories""; although he approved of Dasant's refusal to let prudery dictate his translation, Tolkien thought the command sprang from the belief that fairy tales were naturally children's literature. Little Annie the Goose-Girl Vesle Åse Gåsepike (""Little Annie the Goose-Girl"") is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". It"
"have left their mark in Norwegian cultural history. On his journey through the Gudbrand Valley, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, well known for his compilations of old Norwegian legends and fairy-tales, stayed in Høvringen in 1842. His stay formed the basis for the story of a local legend, Peer Gynt, who came upon trolls and terrifying monsters in Rondane. Asbjørnsen's fairy-tale Reindeer hunt at Rondane 20 years later created the basis for Henrik Ibsen's drama, Peer Gynt. In The Bridal Wreath, the first part of Sigrid Undset's trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, the young protagonist, Kristin, is allowed to accompany her father up into"
"the troll's head by night. The trolls have their own king, called Dovregubben, who lives inside the Dovre Mountains with his court. Dovregubben and his court are described in detail in Ibsen's ""Peer Gynt"". After the integration of Christianity into Scandinavian folklore, trolls developed a hatred of church-bells and the smell of Christians. Trolls are often said to be able to change their appearance and did so in order to trick humans into doing what they wanted. For example, Trolls may present a beautiful appearance in order to trick a character into following them into their mountain home, then hold"
"Boots and His Brothers Boots and His Brothers is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". A king had his castle shadowed by a great oak tree, and had no well that held water year round. He declared that whoever cut down the oak and dug the well would have the princess and half the kingdom. Three brothers, who had set out because their father was too poor to give them anything, were going to his palace. The youngest son heard something hewing, and went off. He found an axe that"
"when the Santa Claus tradition had not been fully established throughout Sweden. Among the songs are ""Julbocken"", ""Julpolska"" and ""Raska fötter springa tripp, tripp, tripp"". Yule Goat The Yule goat is a Scandinavian and Northern European Yule and Christmas symbol and tradition. Its origin may be Germanic pagan and has existed in many variants during Scandinavian history. Modern representations of the Yule goat are typically made of straw. The Yule goat's origins go back to ancient Pagan festivals. While a popular theory is that the celebration of the goat is connected to worship of the Norse god Thor, who rode"
"trolls. Finally Peer discovers a way to trick the king into making his uncle's stay under the mountain in his and Hilde’s place, and in gratitude Ralf invites him, with Loki and the Nis, to live with Hilde’s family at the farm. In the last pages, we learn that Ralf’s voyage took him to Vinland in America, in a similar fashion to Leif Eriksson in the Saga of the Greenlanders. The story is influenced by legends and folktales about trolls and nisses collected in Thomas Keightley’s ‘Fairy Mythology’, 1850, and William Craigie’s ‘Scandinavian Folklore’, 1896, as well as by Hans"
"a bridge over a deep chasm where the wedding procession would ride, and had it opened so that the witch-bride and her witch-bridesmaids all fell through it. They then took the treasures from the witch's castle and went to his homeland for the real wedding. On the way, they took the little girls, and the princess learned that they were her own daughters, whom the king had taken so they could aid her in her quest. White-Bear-King-Valemon White-Bear-King-Valemon (""Kvitebjørn kong Valemon"") is a Norwegian fairy tale. The tale was published as No. 90 in Asbjørnsen and Moe's ""Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny"
"Yule Goat The Yule goat is a Scandinavian and Northern European Yule and Christmas symbol and tradition. Its origin may be Germanic pagan and has existed in many variants during Scandinavian history. Modern representations of the Yule goat are typically made of straw. The Yule goat's origins go back to ancient Pagan festivals. While a popular theory is that the celebration of the goat is connected to worship of the Norse god Thor, who rode the sky in a chariot drawn by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, it goes back to common Indo-European beliefs. The last sheaf of grain bundled"