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02429aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 A04BC684171111E5901AD783DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150620010012 008 131104t20142014enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1780232896 (hbk.) 020 $a 9781780232898 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)868082704 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CUS $d YBM $d OCLCF $d UAB $d VP@ $d IX2 $d SILO 050 4 $a GR555 $b .L56 2014 082 04 $a 398.21 $2 23 100 1 $a Lindow, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Trolls : $b an unnatural history / $c John Lindow. 263 $a 201403 264 1 $a London : $b Reaktion Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 160 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The earliest trolls -- Medieval trolls -- Folklore trolls -- Fairy-tale trolls and trolls illustrated -- Trolls in literature -- Trolls, children, marketing and whimsy. 520 $a Trolls lurk under bridges waiting to eat children, threaten hobbits in Middle-Earth, and invade the dungeons of Hogwarts. Often they are depicted as stupid, slow, and ugly creatures, but they also appear as comforting characters in some children' s stories or as plastic dolls with bright, fuzzy hair. Today, the name of this fantastic being from Scandinavia has found a wider reach: it is the word for the homeless in California and slang for the antagonizing and sometimes cruel people on the Internet. But how did trolls go from folktales to the World Wide Web? To explain why trolls still hold our interest, John Lindow goes back to their first appearances in Scandinavian folklore, where they were beings in nature living beside a preindustrial society of small-scale farming and fishing. He explores reports of actual encounters with trolls - meetings others found plausible in spite of their better judgment - and follows trolls' natural transition from folktales to other domains in popular culture. 500 $a New Book -- June -- 2015 650 0 $a Trolls. 650 0 $a Folklore $z Scandinavia. 650 7 $a Folklore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00930306 650 7 $a Trolls. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01157321 651 7 $a Scandinavia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242804 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107021429.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20150620010216.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A04BC684171111E5901AD783DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IX2Initiate Another SILO Locator Search