F455.2.2.
Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big, and strong.
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Sturl II 45;
HrólfG 67 ch. 41 (
FAS III 176);
This also appears from the people that are compared to them, who are »mikill sem tröll:
e.g.
Eg 59 ch. 178/
or »líkari tröllum en mönnum«, etc./
e.g.
ÞorstB ch. 5, 7, 11 in
FMS III 185, 188-89, 194-95;
BárðSn 12 ch. 6;
GHrólf 322, 326, 357 ch. 30, 31, 36;
HjÖlv 458 ch. 3;
Sigþ 252 ch. 54;
HéðinH 9 ch. 5;
Úlf 189, 210, 211, 225;
Kóngab 4, 33;
smVik 20 ch. 11;
Villif 8 ch. 5;
ParmesL 14 ch. 6;
Ector ch. 12, 14, 20;
RémK 274 ch. 56;
KáraK ch. 15 * etc.