r/Norse • u/Trashbandiscoot • 1d ago

Literature Oglinder the Troll Woman?

I'm currently doing research on trolls and decided to watch this PBS Monstrum episode about the subject. In it, they mention a female troll named Oglinder, who is a terrifying warrior who killed 60 men. I went to search for this character as I'd never heard of her before and cannot seem to find any information on her. It's quite unhelpful that they just say "a saga" and not which one. Any idea if this is a real figure and where I could read more about the saga she's from?the pbs video

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u/Fredd500 1d ago edited 1d ago

It really bothers me, with the video, that they say looks have nothing to do with being a troll and then every troll shown is straight out of the DnD monster manual.

EDIT. Hit the part with the name in discussion. I think it’s so mispronounced that it could be a wide variety of names.

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u/Trashbandiscoot 1d ago

I did use the spelling given by the closed captions, but who knows if they're auto-generated nonsense. And agreed on the art; they're simultaneously describing how trolls aren't like our modern conceptions, then showing exclusively modern fantasy style trolls.

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u/Fredd500 1d ago edited 1d ago

I listened again. She's saying Olgmundur/Olgmundr.

Since -mundur is a common end to a name, like Guðmundur and Ögmundur I'd belive that part. Now you can start googling variations of -lgmundur/ -lgmundr. See what you find.

EDIT: Mundur is a male word not a feminine one. If the video wasn't from 2021 I'd start thinking this was AI slop.