Denmark Gives Student $430,000 for Research on Legendary Underground Trolls
Despite the state of Demark’s economy the country’s government has awarded a $430,000 grant for a study that investigates the existence of underground trolls (that’s the mythical kind, for those in doubt).
Recipient Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer, a PhD student and part-time anthropology lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, plans to research ‘actual relationships’ between humans and trolls on the Danish island of Bornholm.

Bornholm is well-known for its flourishing tourism industry, which is 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 (above), who is ‘small and cute’, lives with his troll family on Langebjerg and comes out at night to have ‘many exciting adventures’.
From Oddity Central