Who created the Norway's Trolls? A short introduction to Kittelsen and Werenskiold.

[@kapayoshi4903]

You inspire me soo much as an artist. The way you present stories of Norvegian folklore motivates me to look into my own Slavic myths, gods and fairytales, to try and bring them to life in my own creative way. Thank you very much for this content mr. Holm and make more awesome videos like this.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

If you come across some good books or sources about Slavic myth and folklore in English, do share.

[@kapayoshi4903]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm Will do kind sir, will do.

[@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103]

@@kapayoshi4903 I too would love to read some Slavic folklore if you find any English-language resources

[@kapayoshi4903]

@@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103 Alright, was actually thinking on researching it all, then doing my own sort of encyclopedia of all the different giants, faries, gods and monsters, all drawn in my style.

[@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103]

@@kapayoshi4903 Oh that would be so awesome! And well worth the time it takes

[@anomictm]

i knew nothing about Norwegian folklore. this was a great introduction. truly fascinating!

[@Kasmodamous]

It can definitely get real weird at times that's for sure, but such is it with cultural folklore.

[@TheGermanFabian]

Loved the video, thank you! As someone who grew up with German fairy tales, I never really explored fairy tales from other regions of the world. Always amazing seeing art from artists with different backgrounds and each having their own unique take on a given theme. As always, the art's amazing.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

I'll be doing some German takes some day as well.

[@TheGermanFabian]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm I'd love that!

[@HATTEGJENGENstudios]

​@@DenUngeHerrHolmyayyyyy

[@MrCarrotbadger]

Thank you for a great video! Being a swede I mostly know (and love) Bauer and his trolls so it’s always a delight to learn about more and similar fairytale artists! Tack igen!

[@midnighthourpoems]

Hello!! I've been a fan of your art for quite some time, and you've been both a huge help and a huge inspiration, i love fairy tales and fairy stories and grew up with them as well!! (Albeit i grew up with grimm, not abjornsen and moe) and i love Norwegian folklore! Well, fairytales as a whole, but thank you for all your beautiful art, beautiful storytelling, all of it. You change the world with it, and utmost congratulations on having your art on display!! I wish i could go see it, but it is far away from where i live, unfortunately. you deserve to have your art up there with john bauer!!

[@MissingRaptor]

Congratulations on being included in the exhibition! I'd love to go see it (if only finances didn't stand in the way). Also, thank you for teaching us some of the history of trolls as part of the Norwegian tradition and oral storytelling as well as the emergence of the familiar troll art! Last of all, it took me waaaay too long to realize that the troll self portrait was you 😅 now I can't unsee it.

[@floramew]

I love learning about folklore, and have a special interest in late 19th century depictions of legends/etc, so it was especially gratifying to listen to you talk about all this, esp since it gives me a window into less well known lore that I might look into more myself later. Thanks as always for sharing! 👍

[@SamuraiMujuru]

New Vaesen book pre-order goes live, new video about the artistic depictions of trolls? What a lovely way to start the day!

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

I need to check out Vaesen some day.

[@slackerpope]

Phenomenal art history lesson. Please make more videos like this. Also, I'd love to know where to find the closest thing to original mythology tales from Norway. Preferably an English translation. Very facinating.

[@alisontheanimal4009]

This was such an informative video. It’s really interesting to learn about where the images of mythical and fantasy creatures come from, especially when you find out that they aren’t static and that they move through time.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

I should do a video on pre-Kittelsen troll art, because some of it is hilarious! Unfortunately hard to find quality images.

[@alisontheanimal4009]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm even without quality images it would be interesting!

[@sophaloph1129]

I learned so much from this video! Congrats on being part of an exhibit!!

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Thank you!

[@sanovice]

i am just getting into your videos, and am really enjoying the level of detail and passion you have to the topics. The cadence and softness of your voice makes these videos great for unwinding of an evening. as a long term lover of European mythology, the stories of the trolls fascinate me.

[@wowKitch]

Thoroughly enjoyed this overview, so much I never knew... Thank you for sharing!

[@levisimpson516]

David Thierree is such a fantastic artist, I love his work. I've been making my own trolls as of late, not truly based on anything, I call them Tree Trolls as they are made of of bits of Trees and plant life, often times having horns made from branches or even full sized logs jutting out from them. I enjoy making them. :)

[@nineteen-sixty-sevenfordmu9454]

Somehow this video appeared on my feed, and it was the vest thing I've seen all week!

[@wendymartinez7366]

Love your art and showing how you create. I am on my Norwegian history journey, visiting in August 2024 to Oslo and Trondheim.

[@felixtrismegistus7489]

Would love to see your take on a Vogon from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

[@MartnCFdk]

You reignited my love for art, mythology and literature.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

That's so good to hear.

[@HatteBan]

Omg its a troll

[@HATTEGJENGENstudios]

Yes Trolls are the point of the video So of course there are trolls

[@HatteBan]

@@HATTEGJENGENstudios ik

[@Bobert_here]

No way!!

[@Bobert_here]

TIS A DAMN TROLL!!!

[@HatteBan]

@@Bobert_here HELL YEAH!

[@VelvetWxtch]

my aunts/grandma used to have these tiny troll statues in her house as decoration. i recently looked them up and they are creepy!

[@The-great-googly-moogly]

I love the designs of trolls in the show Hilda. They are always stone, just becoming inanimate during the day. They also have long noses, glowing eyes, and moss and vines growing on them.

[@refoliation]

Thanks for the beautiful video. You had mentioned Jewish folktales in regards to minority folklore communities in Norway. Now I want to see you dybbuk. Love from the diaspora in Minnesota. ✌️

[@honestgoblinproductions5663]

Thank you, I've been recently drawing my own trolls because i love the design, mostly i do more tiny boggin style. Its just good to learn more about them so i can add more of their origin culture and the artist that spawned the look of them. Thank you

[@sjiva7061]

This was so interesting! Thank you so much! I love fairy tales. I'm reading a book on West African folktales at the moment. I think I have to look into Norwegian tales next!

[@Eyeolair]

Found your video through the shorts ❤ im from Sweden and Ive never been bored of trolls. My reference for drawings is John Bauer.

[@brianedwards7142]

Like number 1000!!! I borrowed some academic collections of fairy tales from the public library in the 70s. Sadly the library has been remodelled and actual books have been "rationalised" with other libraries so that there is no more than a few copies of each book in the whole bloody state and you have to order it ahead of time.

[@samankucher5117]

didn't catch the live stream didn't catch the premier but am glad i still watched both thanks for the story.

[@ivanprime93]

Good & informative video to watch before bed. Now I want to draw trolls & see to do some Drekavac pieces.

[@staruletto9194]

I love this! Lots of Norwegian history I have yet to learn as someone who immigrated to Norway a few years ago. I'd love it if you did some videos in Norwegian!

[@maxpolzonetti6209]

I'm not Norwegian but I LOVE the Norwegian trolls. Your videos are so artistically inspiring and interesting. I've never heard of Vandenshaul or Kittleson (I'm really sorry if I spelled those wrong) up until now and I will deffinately check out their art.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Kittelsen and Werenskiold.

[@miagifodder5599]

The wood's at 11mins looks amazing

[@someuser4166]

I'm from Sweden and I often saw trolls as humans with tails, large noses and mushrooms growing on top of them.

[@kongvinter33]

we Norwegians are a fantastic peoples, we knew what the internet troll would look like long before the interwebs were created.

[@frlade]

I love to draw trolls. My favorite Norwegian folklore.

[@SleepySloth2705]

9:54 I had the honor of getting Jőrmungandr tattooed on my arm by Jannicke in her iconic woodcarving-artstyle 😁🤘

[@StigDesign]

Kjempe bra video :D Synd jeg ikke så denne videoen lenge føre den utstillingen, hadde hvert fint å sjekket den ut :D

[@Ceolskog]

I live on the other side of the planet, but I have had a bit of a thing for Norwegian trolls ever since I saw Trolljegeren back in 2011. Når trollmor har lagt sine elleve små troll... even though that song is originally Swedish.

[@SassyRamen117]

Interesting fact: the US military is slowly turning towards Norse Paganism. As a veteran, I wanna say that your art and stories help spread such things. Not sure if that's your plan, but good work, I could listen to you all day.

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Congratulations, you win the prestigious "Troll of the Day" award! And just for the record, fuck US Imperialism and militarism, and if my stories can sow even just a bit of doubt in someone's head, it's worth it.

[@Alex-cq1zr]

This is actually a bit scary, cause any military is suceptible to far right (fascist and such) people worming their way in to eventually abuse power. And, as far right likes to pervert things from other cultures... they've historically perverted paganism to see as some weird religious justification of their evil. And, overall, far right likes trying to corrupt paganism.

[@user-ConnorKaroThompson]

​@@DenUngeHerrHolmit's sad to see nazis taking over Norse paganism. It also happens with Irish and Scottish cultures. I feel quite angry whenever I see nazis using Celtics knots or Norse runes, but as an American I suppose it's not my place to fight that fight.

[@BananaMike780]

​@@user-ConnorKaroThompson yeah neo nazis like to latch on to anything they might recognize as european culture, it's super weird and annoying. and I disagree, as an american fighting nazis should be ingrained into your DNA. we may have many if our own problems but we can still take a stand. Be the american we always pretended we are.

[@Joevic225]

Awesome video man, thank

[@loganjones6273]

I was having a bad day until I found this video and now it's gotten better thx to your lovely trolls

[@tinnagigja3723]

I think it's pretty obvious where Brian Pilkington got the inspiration from when creating his trolls. Incidentally, have you visited or heard of Troll Park in Fossatún, Iceland?

[@ishtiaqhussain]

Started following you recently, love your videos and narrations. Can you tell what does the circle you make in many of your video somethies you cover with with paint other don't

[@quindecim3315]

Awesome video!!

[@jonathanrynjah]

I guess Trolls have never left our culture, They just evolves into something else.

[@jhilamadhikary5551]

Thank you! I'm going to get this book now!

[@wayneshipp9128]

Brilliance

[@hijodelsepulcro]

Eres un gran artista y un poeta de la tinta. Gracias

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Muchas gracias. Tú palabras me hace feliz.

[@bepivisintainer2975]

captivating))))

[@BanaBiohazard]

Amazing

[@OneSlavBoi]

This is awesome

[@svenningen]

Enorm video!

[@HATTEGJENGENstudios]

You told me to watch this video. And this video was very good!

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Glad you liked it!

[@kubix1877]

Now i know why Netflix "Troll" look like that. Movie itself is like 5/10 but the troll is animated pretty good.

[@ObserversOfHumanity]

Dont forget about swedish trolls as well! They have been in all of scandinavia until they got turned into stone most of them.

[@Theloserguy_312]

I knew you were norwegian! Yeah!!! love it (:

[@Rat-tea]

❤

[@ScipioAmericanus__]

Where can I buy illustrated English version?

[@sketchified8064]

Hey Kim can you pls do an ink monster of a drawing of Shrek by telling the story of true ogres . Fun fact - Shrek is not an ogre in the norweigian dub of Shrek . Instead hes a troll .

[@EldionLazi-fs7wq]

You are very inspiring too me as a noob artist :>

[@generalrodcocker1018]

you showed the false varg vikernes ... this pic was from the movie "lords of chaos"

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

I know.

[@spacestormgirl2657]

A dumb question but do you like Guillermo's Trollhunters?

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

No, I didn't like that. I usually like Guillermo Del Toro, and like a lot of kids shows, but that one didn't grab me.

[@spacestormgirl2657]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm alrighty, thank you for your answer

[@Ceolskog]

@@spacestormgirl2657 You should check out the Norwegian film Trolljegeren, which translates to "The Troll Hunter," you might enjoy it.

[@EmilyFPC]

❤️‍🔥💘💞

[@O.PunPun]

The song cover is just too vibrant for the content displayed

[@pixiekawai]

Hei Kim! Si ifra om du er nedi hovedstaden en dag, ville vært en ære å dele en øl og litt tegning med deg c:

[@labakrapscalio451]

Hoggle, Keith Richards

[@Monkeylover23]

Hi

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

Hi.

[@mohamadelnhas486]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm Hi

[@spacestormgirl2657]

Did you ever meet a Saami?

[@DenUngeHerrHolm]

That's a weird question. I've know people of Sami culture or descent.

[@spacestormgirl2657]

@@DenUngeHerrHolm for someone who can only dream of going to Norway it's a normal question. After all, I can't tell from videos what are these people like so I hoped for some experience from someone actually having a chance.....

[@Bildgesmythe]

Well take that Disney!

[@Heliotay]

Norway trolls are basicly sweden trolls.

[@guitarrachiconj]

Hhaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha bro i got sick n started vibin with the ones missing their eyes only able to speak in an accent cause mmy vocal chords were shot dude ye is a goood day si we goin yas 2 da other way cuz we can not see nythn lol is that how they built english?

[@QueenLiliTheRed]

Tusser

[@amask99]

I'm wondering, have you ever considered that the Catholic faith might be the true one. If you do one day, there are some KZbin channels such as Breaking in Teh Habit, Thomistic Institute, Ascension Presents, Catholic Answers which explain it. It's better to know the way of salvation than be sorry afterwards, right?

[@stephenboerner251]

Ah love it. The main reason I use the internet is for shit like this. This part of your life that is so ingrained and everyday for your culture and here I am, 24, just hearing about the grand tradition of Norway's trolls. Sweet art, I think I have some new tattoo ideas haha