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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Finland's first doctor of trolls

A Finnish university is about to give a student a PhD in troll-lore:

Master of Philosophy Camilla Asplund Ingemark, 30, has researched the subject for six years. She will defend her doctoral dissertation, which is classified as a work on folklore, at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku on Friday.
The study describes the world of trolls according to the beliefs in the folklore of Swedish-speaking Finns.

Link (Thanks, Sparky!)

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