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Other verbal connotations of troll include ramble, prowl, and jovial song or play. Ye olde minstrels and bards and jesters did troll, for instance. Ye Digital age forum trolls do tend to ramble and prowl, at times jovially, at times maliciously though benign or otherwise.
A combination of all "troll's" denotations and connotations!? I expect that's at root the symbolism of folk tale trolls. A hedge troll could be akin to a jovial, if easily unsettled, barbarian highway robber at leisure behind a wild-wood sanctuary. Another mythos motif is wanted -- an aesthetic and intangible feature that reveals natural and true moral nature; say, put upon hard times by a labor surplus excess, the troll turns to pillage for subsistence -- sloth. Rambles, prowls, jovially plays, and is a nuisance to social order.
Hey, is that Robin Hood perceived by equally immoral sheriffs and lairds? He exacted tolls and behaved the troll from his jovial place in the Sherwood hedges, right? Speaking of "axes and ministers." Legendary.
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Right, mine are ready. I think I've got the 13 lines right (not counting blank lines I presume)
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I am apparently really terrible about wanting to join these challenges and then forgetting about them until more or less the last minute. Ahh well. I still have a couple of days. I'll think of something.
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A flat tire and the fixing thereof distracted me thoroughly; I knew I was forgetting something. Ahh well... There's always next time
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I got one in, at least! Thanks for the extension, axeminister. If I think of any more ideas before time is up, I'll submit another entry.
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Ahh well. I still have a couple of days. I'll think of something.
