hill-troll

English

Noun

hill-troll (plural hill-trolls)

  1. (mythology) A troll that lives in or under a hill.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:
      "What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.
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