Denmark Gives Student $430,000 for Research on Legendary Underground Trolls

Hi ya! Great to see you today! Wassup? Doing anything exciting...that you want to tell me about? No? Me neither. Oh well. Thank goodness you're here to brighten up my virtual cafe, eh! Fill your mug with some arabica juice and grab a virtual muffin, doughnut or Danish. Speaking of Danish, listen to this...

Denmark’s economy might not be in tip-top shape right now, but that hasn’t deterred that northern country’s government from awarding 2.5 million Danish kroner ($430,000) in grant money to a study that investigates the existence of underground trolls (mythical creatures, not internet haters).

The money will be received by Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer, a PhD student and part-time anthropology lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, who has spent two years studying ghost activity. With the new funds, he now plans to research ‘actual relationships’ between humans and trolls on the Danish island of Bornholm.

Bornholm is well-known for its flourishing tourism industry, which is mostly centered around the belief that the island is inhabited by trolls who live underground and come out at night. They even have a ‘national troll’ named Krølle Brølle, who is ‘small and cute’ and lives with his troll family on Langebjerg, and comes out at night to have ‘many exciting adventures’.

I choose to keep an open mind about trolls, pixies, dwarves, giants, elves and faeries because...you never know...especially with science coming closer to believing in other dimensions. Maybe these other-world creatures do live in the same space and time as we do but remain mostly unseen because of their ability to cross back and forth between their wourld and ours. Who knows...

See ya, eh!

Bob