They call me Troll; Gnawer of the Moon, Giant of the Gale-blasts, Curse of the rain-hall, Companion of the Sibyl, Nightroaming hag, Swallower of the loaf of heaven. What is a Troll but that?
From the latter half of the Prose Edda.
It's something one of my undergrads left of my desk one day, after I asked why the students started calling me a troll. I'm assuming the poem is meant to be symbolic and the term "troll" is meant to refer more to the original Norse mythological sources as any uncanny supernatural being, but given that I'm one of the hardest professors there, it may just be meant to be a term of either respect or fear. Perhaps both.
Eventually I grew fond of it and posted the poem on my office door.
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Gnawer of the Moon,
Giant of the Gale-blasts,
Curse of the rain-hall,
Companion of the Sibyl,
Nightroaming hag,
Swallower of the loaf of heaven.
What is a Troll but that?
From the latter half of the Prose Edda.
It's something one of my undergrads left of my desk one day, after I asked why the students started calling me a troll. I'm assuming the poem is meant to be symbolic and the term "troll" is meant to refer more to the original Norse mythological sources as any uncanny supernatural being, but given that I'm one of the hardest professors there, it may just be meant to be a term of either respect or fear. Perhaps both.
Eventually I grew fond of it and posted the poem on my office door.
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