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A Walk Across the Pond

Welcome to another adventure from the Thousand Acre Woods. A place on the edge of Trollheim deep within the mysterious NJ Pine Belt! Tales Chronicled by Christopher Jonathan Hulton...That's me! Today's tale, Gramps tries to walk to Norway, over the ocean...

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One day, Gramps decided to visit Norway. Bjorn said he tried walking back, but at his tallest he could only reach Labrador with his first step from Toms River. On his second step, he just missed the shoals of Greenland.

Gramps stepping across ocean from Labrador to Greenland.

By the time he stuck his knee into the water, he realized it was too deep and returned to Labrador. He accidentally knocked a family of walruses off a small cliff and sucked a school of fish to the ocean floor as he withdrew his foot. 

Walrus knocked into the water by a wave and fish being sucked into the space between the waves to the ocean floor.

Now safely back in Toms River, he shrunk down to the size of a mouse and stowed away on a schooner leaving the Cranberry Inlet.

Helgi looking devious while holding one of her blueberry pies.

Once disembarking, he dropped his disguise and departed as the tallest Viking of years past. He ducked under the town gate and scraped his horn as he left the dock with his tail swishing. 

Gramps turned into mouse standing in front of a shelf of cans in the hull.

It's not strange to see a Troll walking in Stavanger. In fact, it has been a daily occurrence for thousands of years. Some see their tails. Others ignore it. Some never see it. The Lutherans have the hardest time seeing Trolls at all; they keep chastising people for talking to themselves.

The customs officials only worry when ill-tempered Nisse from America come to visit family demanding their rice pudding and the finest horses. They were the original ugly Americans.

A Nisse standing on a stack of luggage with Customs official ducking and trying to sneak away unnoticed behind the counter.

Gramps visited his hulder cousin at the Four Salmon Inn and shared some conversations over pints of root beer.

Gramps and his cousin drinking root beer in a tavern by the fire in comfy chairs.

The next day, he grew to a prodigious height, not as high as when he tried walking here, but tall enough to walk over a fjord or two. Then, following the switchbacks over the mountains, his first step was in Trondheim, and the next was within the northwestern mountains.

Gramps stepping over a mountain range full of windy roads with a whale in the ocean, a compass printed, and a seaserpent swimming.

Soon he stepped over Trollveggen, the Troll Wall, and into Finnmark. 

Gramps stepping over Troll wall with a raven on his shoulder.

There he met his risi cousin.

Risi cousin of Gramps with a den of polar bears running in front of him through a frozen valley between a few mountains.

He took the trip to bring back Beowulf's legendary horde of honey to cure his hay fever. It would make a wonderful medicinal blueberry melomel to be used when Grams is not around…

His cousin suggested a ship leaving from Oslo to Labrador, then he could walk home from there. So he took out his thimble, poured the honey into it, and placed it in his overalls pocket

Helgi wiping her mouth with an odd grin.

On board the ship, the thimble looked as big to him as a normal cauldron on the other side of the wainscoting.

Departing in Canada, he walked back home with Beowulf's horde safely tucked in his pocket.

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We are releasing our second collection of Trollheim stories in print, named Trolling About. It will be available on this website at www.salemhousepress.com and Barnes & Noble. Pick up your copy today, pretty please with sugar on top...

 

Trolling About Cover with Gripping Beast deign with a Troll, a boar, and bear.

 

Make sure you pick up the first collection of tales too...

 

Cover of Trollheim: Book One with Karl stealing a chicken, Helgi leaning over roost, Bosco milling about in the distance, Gramps towering over the trees and the Nattrolls house with Hulton sitting in front with Bjorn walking by in Trollheim within th Nj Pine Barrens.

 

 

If you like the tales from Trollheim you will love Trolls: A Compendium!

by Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin and
Christopher Jonathan Hulton

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Fiction/ Illustrated Fantasy/ Mythology / Scandinavian Myth/ Norse Sagas / Scandinavian Folk Lore / Coffee Table Book

Paperback: $45 | Hardcover: $65 | PDF eBook $5
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Following the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. tradition of the series that created Brian Froud's and Alan Lee's Faeries and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we present you with what would have been the next book in the series: Trolls: A Compendium. Trolls—do you think you know what they are? Could you be wrong?

Trolls within Scandinavian lore, myth, saga, fantasy, and folktales are actually anything magical within our northern neighbor's culture. Richly illustrated in this volume are the tales of faeries, dwarves, nissen, huldras, gods, Jotuns, draugar, ghosts, and more. Also, this book introduces our readers to the world of Trollheim, populated by Nattrolls that escaped the 17th-century Swedish colony within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Narrated by Christopher Jonathan Hulton, who lives in the Thousand Acre Woods just after the Civil War, their tales are filled with Native American lore and tales of their neighbor, the Jersey Devil.

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