The Troll Inside You

By Ármann Jakobsson,

Book cover of The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North

Book description

What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say “troll”? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them?

The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage…

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1 author picked The Troll Inside You as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ármann breaks the mold to show us how to understand and research Vikings in general. The essence of the supernatural being that Vikings called tröll shows us clearly that what we think is the norm today is unlikely to be that of the Viking age. 

His book is a warning that we modern people need a ground penetrating radar to reveal all the landmines that our modern mindset places in our path to learning about Vikings.

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