Netflix has greenlight Troll, a Norwegian monster movie from Tomb Raider and The Wave director Roar Uthaug. The film, inspired by Scandinavian legend, imagines a gigantic creature awakens from ...

The celebrated Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914) had already illustrated a multivolume work of folklore when, in 1887, he moved to Norway’s far north and was led to think about the ...

“Trolls are a big part of Norwegian folklore,” our Tromso guide Wilma said. “They are bad and they can only come out when it’s dark because when the sun shines on them, they turn into stone.

Trollhunter isn’t as rip-roaring as it wants to be, but it does achieve more with its low budget than most American horror films, and gets a few good laughs in to boot. As you might have guessed ...

The gnomes got a boost in the mid-1970s, when the owners of a Norse gift shop called Open House Imports began placing trolls on their lawn to lure visitors into their shop. They were an immediate hit.

Swedish animated kidpic “Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber” has sold to 69 countries, according to NonStop Sales. English-language pic, which had its first screening this weekend at the ...

Irene Kucinski loves her Norwegian traditions, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, and one can find gnomes popping up everywhere at her home.