The house troll
Sunday December 04, 2005; part of: Literature

Is ready here. I mean to go back and turn it into much better English, but at least this is a draft, which shows the storyline.

Posted by andrewb at December 04, 2005 09:56 PM
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I enjoyed the House Troll very much. I like the idea of decency and sobriety stemming from dark supernatural forces and also the way the 'Word of God' and House Trolls co-exist, reminds me of some interesting stories friends from staunch Free Presbyterian Gaelic backgrounds have told me.

Posted by: Louise on December 8, 2005 12:54 AM

That's almost gnostic, isn't it - decency and order coming from aspects of the supernatural that really couldn't give a gnome's hat for mankind except perhaps as some sort of herd animal. It seems to tie in with the current seasonal joy exuding from our cousins to the west, where the godly are complaining that Christmas isn't being commercialised enough, but I'm not sure I have a mind sufficiently advanced to explain exactly how.

Posted by: Rupertg on December 8, 2005 09:41 AM

Well, tell us hen it's done.

Posted by: David Weman on December 8, 2005 09:43 AM

It might take some time. The point is that to work as an English translation it's going to have to sit very loose indeed to Lagerlöf's sentence structure and choice of metaphor. At least, that's how I see it. I might even abolish the owl.

David, did you know that some of these stories are online in Swedish? Though, I think, only the first volume. The Runeberg project, I think it's called.

Posted by: acb on December 8, 2005 09:52 AM

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