The trolls of Orkney and Shetland include sea-trows, maritime monsters whose bodies are cloaked in seaweed 🌊🧌

🎨 by Theodor Kittelsen

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In Shetland, Maren spun flax fine as silk 🕸️, singing to fend off #Trows. Smitten Grimni left gifts. On the 7th night, he claimed her. She used iron to escape as the Trow hall crumbled. Now, iron protects her door 🛡️. #ShetlandFairylore #Fairyfriday 🧚‍♀️

Trow 🎨: Mark Bere Peterson

"Transplanted from Norway's overwhelming natural background to somewhat low islands [...] the trolls diminished in size sufficiently to inhabit [...] the mounds and tumuli conveniently left behind by prehistoric people."

- Ernest W. Marwick
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