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The Troll with No Heart in His Body
And Other Tales of Trolls from Norway
By Lunge-Larsen, Lise & Bowen, Betsy & Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen & Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen
- ISBN
- 978-0-39591-371-0
- Publisher
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1999
Gr 2-5-Nine Norwegian tales that feature ugly, dim-witted giants who live inside mountains or under bridges, as in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," the best known of these tales. In fact, the majority of the stories here will be unfamiliar to American audiences. Trolls readily capture children to eat for dinner ("Butterball"), steal princesses and hold them captive to rub their aching heads ("The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant"), and covet human possessions ("T...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
