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... troll world . In the Act I he has threatened to come as a troll , at dead of night , to Solveig , to drain her blood into a cup and to " bite [ her ] all over the loins and back . ” As a three - headed troll for the Sæter - Girls he had ...
... troll world . In the Act I he has threatened to come as a troll , at dead of night , to Solveig , to drain her blood into a cup and to " bite [ her ] all over the loins and back . ” As a three - headed troll for the Sæter - Girls he had ...
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... Troll King's pontifical utterances . In the Oxford Peer Gynt , Christopher Fry ingeniously puts Polonius's words " to thine own self be true " into the Troll King's mouth , appropriately emphasizing that this old Ibsen wiseacre , like ...
... Troll King's pontifical utterances . In the Oxford Peer Gynt , Christopher Fry ingeniously puts Polonius's words " to thine own self be true " into the Troll King's mouth , appropriately emphasizing that this old Ibsen wiseacre , like ...
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... Troll King terrifies Peer with the insult that Peer has always been a hill - troll , but Peer has accused himself of the same thing earlier and , as we have seen , one of the play's basic thematic suggestions is that all humanity are ...
... Troll King terrifies Peer with the insult that Peer has always been a hill - troll , but Peer has accused himself of the same thing earlier and , as we have seen , one of the play's basic thematic suggestions is that all humanity are ...
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Journeys into Uncertainty | 23 |
The Vision Blurs | 71 |
All Hope Abandoned? | 104 |
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