The Trows of Orkney and Shetland Folklore: Nordic Trolls, Drow & Trows | Exclusive Video: June 2022

In this monthy exclusive video we explore the creature known as the trow from the Orkney and Shetland Islands, a strange mix of Scottish and Nordic folklore thought to perhaps be derived from Scandinavian trolls or draugr.
Music:
The Druid Giant by Ivan Duch
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Trows, Trolls & the History of Orkney and Shetland
02:47 Physical Descriptions
03:32 Names and Etymology of “Trow”
05:17 Sea Trows
09:09 Land Trows
14:06 Kunal Trows
17:38 Outro

[@Arran-GaelicDruid1861]

I’m tremendously glad that I stumbled upon this channel! having ancestry from Orkney and the northern isles! This should be 1 million subscriber plus channel. Great work.

[@jamie2051]

Decided your voice and this semi spooky content is exactly what I need to watch for bed

[@robgau2501]

This is pretty much what my ancestry is: Norse Gael. Clan Henderson. So this is where the Drow come from. They are the dark elves in Dungeons and Dragons.

[@CrashWeezerman]

I've always figured Drow take some some inspiration from the myth of the Trow, though they've got almost nothing in common with their mythological namesake.

[@maxpowers9129]

I think the Drow in D&D is the combination of various myths. Dwarves for example, were often called elves but had black skin like the Drow in the game. So basically, they could be considered dark elves that live underground. There were also the seelie and unseelie courts. One of which was ruled by a woman and were viewed as being immoral. I think that's what led to the drow being led by an evil matriarch.

[@missmadigan9285]

Anna, the picture you shared during your Land Trow segment; is that purported to be a trow on film?! It looked spooky!! 😱😨✨

[@connorricketts1323]

thank you Anna a very instresing vidoe loved and thank you for all you do

[@boldoraclestudios9329]

Thank you! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@user-lh8ie4bb5q]

Thank you! It's a good video.

[@mon_moi]

yesss brand new video ❤

[@mrc8308]

Thanks! Such an enjoyable watch.

[@haulfr.channel]

Very interesting indeed. Thanks for explaining all this and telling it so well, calm and beautifully! 👍😁 love it all ❤

[@RedcoatsReturn]

A most interesting video…very well told too! 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍 I met a Troll…in Huddersfield….but…nobody noticed the difference….there 😄😉

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@AnnaBridgland >>> Great video...👍

[@danielmalinen6337]

Maybe it eases the confusion that the troll also comes from draug. Or at least folklore and etymology researchers believe so.

[@NoirKitsune]

Hey Anna where have you disappeared to?

[@edwardbirdsall6580]

You are missed .

[@hyugalubbok7770]

shamanic (spiritiual) practicies are exist all other, and the parasitic subtle body of slavic obour, and the baghest (bear/house/burial/mountion spirit) sharing similiaretis with this mound dweller alleged night hag attacks (turn into a cat, that grow more and more on the chest of his victims, crush him to death). I am highly wondering, if this unnatural metamorphosis of Glamr into this horrible being, came from fae=alien genetics, that start to kick in after the death=hibernation of fae-blooded human (similiar to the Palco fish, or the body became an "chrysalid-layer" of sort, for their new, transformed body)