Troll 2

"Made of earth and stone."

"A snow-clad heart

and icy bones."

From the depths of the mountains, the trolls rose.

For a long time, humans and trolls lived side by side

in peaceful and respectful harmony.

Until a new world order

swept across Europe.

In Norway, a young king was tasked with Christianizing the country.

Saint Olaf.

The new faith had no room for the ancients of the Earth.

From the safe darkness of the woods and mountains,

he drove them out into the sunlight,

where they turned to stone.

With sword and Bible in hand,

Olaf cleansed the country of trolls.

And as the massacre raged on,

the trolls grew wary of the sacred symbols of Christianity.

The age of trolls

was over.

He showed no mercy and slaughtered them all, adults and...

I think we'll stop there, guys.

But, Mom, Dad's telling me about the troll messicker.

Massacre.

But, Dad,

why was Saint Olaf so mean?

- The trolls were there first! - Exactly.

Why didn't anyone help them? That's what I'd have done.

Good! But there was no one to protect them from the narrow-mindedness of men.

Okay, you better leave before I toss you out on your butt, Tidemann.

To be continued.

- Good night, Tiny. - Good night, Big.

"Troll massacre"?

Is Ashlad's eating match with the troll better?

The troll gutting itself, and its entrails spilling out?

Hey, are you okay?

Are you okay?

Relax. I'm fine.

Are you sure?

Promise.

Hey, Mom?

You know the fairy tale about the troll wedding?

Do you think they were actually chased up there by the mean Olaf?

And that's why they died?

Yeah. Well, it's a possibility.

Yeah.

Out.

We'll take you there someday, Nora.

To the Troll Wall.

You promise?

Promise.

Go to sleep now.

I'm not sleepy.

Can you sing?

Please.

When Mama Troll has put

Her 11 little trolls to bed

And tied them up by their tails

She sings a slow song

For her 11 little trolls

The most beautiful words that she knows

30 YEARS LATER

Hello?

No!

Nora, wait! It's me!

It's me!

Andreas Isaksen.

It's been a while.

It's just me here.

Tidemann hospitality runs in the family.

Yeah, I...

I wasn't expecting guests.

What...

What have you...

been up to

since last time?

Hey, I don't mean to be rude or anything.

It's good to see you again and all that, but what are you doing here?

I...

ON THE TRAIL OF SAINT OLAF'S TOMB

I was just wondering if you could help us with something.

Us?

Yeah, I mean...

Is it a national security thing?

You can't say and have to take me somewhere secret?

- I thought you were done with that stuff. - Yeah, I thought so too.

But just when I thought I was out,

they pulled me back in.

A lot has changed.

A new government and...

PALACE DENIES ACCUSATIONS

...a new prime minister with...

It doesn't matter who's in power. They're all the same.

WITHDRAWS FROM TROLL COMMISSION

RESTRAINING ORDER FROM THE PALACE

A FISTFUL OF ZEN

I'm sorry you made the trip for nothing.

You don't know what criticism is

until you've been roasted by 12-year-olds on TikTok.

- I haven't... - Don't worry about it.

I saw you dedicated it to Dad. That was really nice.

He'd have liked that.

I think

he'd have liked what I want to show you too.

What do you mean?

You've found

something else?

Damn.

It's just a formality.

You know it takes more than a few papers to keep me quiet?

Yeah.

But if you tell anyone about this,

people are definitely going to think you're bonkers.

Thank you.

TINY TROLLY MOLLY

Vemork?

VEMORK POWER STATION RJUKAN

Professor Sinkhole?

Yes, you probably remember Professors Møller and Wangel.

Professor Tidemann. Welcome to Vemork.

This must come as a bit of a shock.

You could say that.

It's regrettable that we got off on the wrong foot last time, Professor.

At the time, the government didn't have security clearance for Project Jotun,

and the information we possess.

But secrets have a tendency to be exposed sooner or later.

Yes.

Like trolls in the sun.

What are you talking about?

Someone has always known.

The history books tell of the Allied sabotage operations during World War II.

The Heroes of Telemark.

The race to develop the first atomic bomb.

The heavy water ops to upset Hitler's plans.

A cover for what the mission was really about.

The battle, Professor Tidemann, was never about heavy water.

The people who found him 100 years ago

named him Jotun,

after the primeval trolls from mythology.

But

I call him

Megatroll.

We've naturally taken steps

to prevent any potential security threats.

UV lights have been installed around the troll.

Powerful enough to turn it to stone in an instant.

Inspired by your creative solution in Oslo.

What are you guys doing?

Do we have a visitor?

Yes. This is Professor...

Marion Auryn Rhadani. I'm the project supervisor.

- This is... - The legendary Nora Tidemann.

I'm well aware of who you are.

I thought we agreed

not to involve her.

If we don't show any progress soon,

they'll shut down the whole project.

What's going on?

My apologies. It's Farsi.

I took it as an elective.

Professor Rhadani is an evolutionary biologist.

- She's been leading this research for... - The last two years.

And Andreas has told me all about your heroics in Oslo, of course.

I'd have wished for a slightly different outcome, perhaps.

Having a conscious troll here would have provided a lot of answers.

Okay, so he's not dead?

No. Hibernating.

Ever since it was discovered here.

The only sign of life is a pulse.

It has some sort of heart.

But the insides look more like

a forest floor than any animal we've seen.

Yeah, its DNA has more in common with a spruce tree than a human.

Well, they are nature.

What was that?

Trolls are nature.

"Made of earth and stone."

"A snow-clad heart and icy bones."

Nursery rhymes and superstition.

Right. Are we done here?

No. You haven't seen everything yet. You haven't seen...

Come on.

Welcome to the Nerd Room.

Nora, hi!

Siggy!

It's mine. Ours, I mean.

- Wow! - We didn't really have that kind of thing.

But then it became that kind of thing.

Yeah, clearly.

Yeah. Which then became a tiny thing in here.

A little nilbog.

Leonard if it's a boy.

And Uhura if it's a girl.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

But that's not what I wanted to show you. Look at this.

In here we have texts written in Latin, Old Norse, and Sanskrit.

Runes that date back to before Christ.

And everything's about trolls.

Check this out.