Observations placeholder
Keightley, Thomas - The Troll and Svead
Identifier
014282
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Thomas Keightley – World Guide to Fairies etc [a compendium of folktales and fairy lore ]
The Troll reached him a heavy iron bar and bade him show his strength on that. But not all Svead's efforts availed to lift it, whereupon the Troll handed him a horn telling him to drink out of it. No sooner had he drunk a little out of it than his strength increased. He was now able to lift the bar, which when he had drunk again became still lighter, but when again renewing his draught he emptied the horn, he was able to swing the bar with ease and he then learned from the Troll that he had now gotten the strength of 12 men.............. but the Troll warned him that if ever he should reveal the secret of his strength, he should be punished by getting the appetite of 12