Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trolls

UW Professor of Swedish studies Lotta Gavel Adams offers a complete history of Scandinavia's mythical beasts.by Rich SmithWhen I ask Professor Lotta Gavel Adams to compare internet trolls to the Nordic monsters she's loved since she was a Swedish schoolgirl, I can hear the disgust in her voice."Internet trolls are not trolls!" she tells me. "Though online trolls are also forces of evil and chaos, they are really just human beings who are trying to cause trouble. If they don't eat snails or frogs