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    Swedish Troll: First Drawing


    Hej, Sverige 👋🏽it’s me again, the Monster Fan

    I’ve drawn a troll so far and I would like to know your thoughts and opinions if my design of the troll is accurate or not before I draw more. I’d like to thank everyone from my first post for being very helpful with the given information about the depictions of trolls from Sweden and the suggestions made for how I can draw them. Please let me know of any errors that I need to fix as I am a self-learning artist and I want to be careful when portraying figures or beings of other cultures.

    Thank you so much ☺️

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    9 Comments

    1. Jagaerkatt on

      When I think of trolls I think of the ones done by John Bauer. You should look up his illustrations.

    2. DdPillar on

      Trolls are folkloric beings, there is no “accurate”. They’re as varied as the human imagination.

    5. STT_Unofficial on

      Average school rumor/creepypasta be like:

      Also, two preschools teaches said that trolls existed in 1 a river (Höje å) and 2 in a house. In the house, I saw some sort of slug, which I thought was a troll for a short while.

    7. Marcuspepsi on

      Teacher of religion here! There is no singular definition of how trolls look like in Swedish folklore. Folklore is inherently varied from place to place, and descriptions of a singular phenomenon can vary a lot depending on who you asked.

      Trolls today are synonymous with the works of John Bauer. In folklore they are however often described as being very closely resembling humans, but with twisted features like larger ears or feet, or also having tails.

      Something to keep in mind is that the idea of trolls embodied the apprehension of other cultures or peoples; they’re like us but not the same and therefore morally beneath us. They celebrate holidays, cook food for their families, have cattle and farming, brew beer etc. but in a different way from us (and as a result in a strange way). The concept of the changeling (bortbyting) is often described as having features associated with things like Down’s syndrome – again, like us but ”not the same.”