Bergtagen – Taken By The Mountain – Troll Abductions That Defy Space And Time

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - In the old days, people were genuinely terrified of being dragged into the mountains and held captive by trolls—and it’s easy to see why! Imagine standing before a towering rock wall, soaring up toward the sky; a sight like that could absolutely ignite the human imagination, and so it did. It’s no wonder that vivid folk beliefs and thrilling, often dramatic stories about trolls in the mountains came to life.

Is someone living inside such a rock, or what exactly is inside it?

'Mountain-taking' or ‘bergtagning, it's not just about captivity in a mountain, but also an eerie and dangerous inability to leave the mountain, and then the forest itself, where the kidnapped lose their grip on time and place!

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