<em>Trolling</em>’s Surprising Origins in Fishing
A method once used by mythology experts has turned painfully aggressive.
by Caleb Madison
May 09, 2022
2 minutes
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Four hundred years ago, trolls haunted the dark forests of Scandinavia looking for lost humans to club on the head with trees, drag back to the depths of their caves, and eat. Now they haunt the dark forests of social media looking for lost posters to goad with inflammatory surprisingly has no clear etymological connection to Nordic mythology. Despite compelling and controversial academic arguments to the contrary, such as , the modern definition of actually comes to us more directly from the world of fishing.
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