Troll
c. 1000 CE – 2026 CEattested
Scandinavia
- Norse
Lives under bridges, inside mountains, or wherever the sun does not reach, because sunlight turns them to stone. Norwegian fairy tales are full of heroes outwitting them rather than outfighting them.
Known for
- turned to stone by sunlight
- under the bridge
- outwitted, not outfought
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.