Showing posts with label troll illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label troll illustration. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Troll Illustrations by Rolf Lidberg.

From the book TROLL, The original book of Norwegian Trolls by Jan Loof.

Father Troll has had enough,  
he wraps himself up in a blanket, goes to sleep and waits for spring to arrive.
Now that Spring has arrived Father Troll feels young again.
Summer has arrived!
Calypso Bulbosaor, The winter flower. 
When they appear, the winter will be a long and very cold one.
Picking cotton grass to make cloth to keep warm in the winter
Clothes are not enough to survive a dark and cold winter - they need lots of food too.
(Dried fish will keep them going)
Good Night Morton
Summer passed quickly to Autumn when there are plenty of berries and mushrooms to eat.
What happens to the animals when it gets cold? Some get winter fur, some sleep and birds fly away. Look over there at the bog, the Elves are dancing. 
Cleaning the boat before winter.
Troll children playing marbles.
Skating!
Fishing through a hole in the lake.
Getting enough to eat to grow big and strong.
Rice pudding to celebrate the end of the year.
Looking at the stars and waving goodbye to Winter.

To look at some more Troll illustration's you can look at some of my other posts:

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Norway, In the land of Trolls.


I'm always on the lookout for a good Troll story and some good illustration. This book is great on both counts, I highly recommend it.  Although the stories are great anyway I like the foreword the author has added to each story. It adds to the mystery and folklore, re-sparking the memories and magic  (that I remember as a child) of the stories, keeping them alive for -our children-. By doing so she reflects on history but keeps it current for children today. I also love the illustration that are of simple woodcuts. They have a certain raw quality that echoes the roughness of a troll. There is also something folk about the pictures, within a princess's dress, a church or a tree, but more so on the edges and decoration that reminds me of the old saga silver design, borrowed from the Vikings.

The Norwegian landscape is alive with trolls.
 Not only are trolls the landscape,
 they return to and shape the landscape around them when they die.
The three Billy Goats Gruff

The boy who became a lion, a falcon and an ant.





Butterball


The handshake

The boy and the North Wind.

The white cat in the Dovre Mountain

The sailors and the Troll
The eating competition


The Troll with no heart in his body





To look at more troll stories, visit my blog post:
The Golden Bird, Kittelsen
Troll of the forest, Kittelsen.
And a still from the film, The Troll Hunter.