Since I Was A Child,

I had always believed that trolls were fictional creatures,

I am of course talking about mythical creatures, not Internet haters, but it appears that they are really, physically here with us now, at least that is what the northern country’s government in Denmark believes, the country is obviously awash with spare cash, why else would it give 2.5 million Danish kroner ($430,000) in grant money to a study that investigates the existence of underground trolls? 


the lucky recipient of this cash is 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, the island is well-known for its flourishing tourism industry, which is mostly centred 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’, 

Lars Christian will visit the island in search of these trolls, spending all the money allocated to him by the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF), “I think it is fascinating that the legend of the island’s trolls continues to thrive in today’s world and I want to look at the creatures’ physical manifestations on the island and the way they are interacting with locals,” he said, meanwhile, DFF chairman Peter Munk Christiansen expressed his confidence that the study is going to be a very useful one, “At DFF, we believe that humanistic research should be funded on equal footing with all other research areas and we actually support that area more than we support societal research,” he explained, “We profess a pluralism and broad coverage – we don’t just pursue things that are the most popular right now,” 


I am sure the people of Denmark will applaud their government's decision to try and interact with the trolls, it must be so nice living in a country that has so much spare cash it can investigate National legend such as this, I wish we in Great Britain could do the same and do more research on some of our National legends, but we are short of cash, still the tax payers of Denmark must be so looking forward to hearing as mentioned before, their ‘many exciting adventures’ that the trolls have.