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A troll (Greater Anglish: trell) bith a being in Northiſh folklore, inſlotting Northiſh miſtlore. In Old Northmennish ordfroms, beings raught as trolls live in offsundered landspans umb ſtones, barrows, or ſhraffs, hence living togeþer in ſmall maiths, and sind ſeldom helpful to mennish beings.
In later Shedlandiſh folklore, trolls became beings in her own right, where hy live far from menniſh settlings, be not Cristened, and ſind umbethought pleely to mennish beings. Tohinging on þeam ordfrom, her ansen ſundreth greatly; trolls may be unsightly and ſlow-witted, or look and behave right like mennish beings, with no hour grottish marks about hem.
Wordlore[]
Ðo Old Northmannish meannames troll and trǫll (ſundrily meaning "fiend, mare, werewolf, ettin") and Middle Hightheech troll, trolle "fiend" (likely borrowed, following speechloresman Vladimir Orel, from Old Northmannish) unfolded from an Or-Theedish neither meanname *trullan. Ðe headspring of ðis Or-Theedish word bith unknown.