Troll sex: youth, old age, and the erotic in Old Norse-Icelandic narratives of the supernatural by Roby, MH

“…I examine the ghostly sexual assault of a teenage girl in <em>Heiðarvíga saga</em>, an attack that is partly blamed on her nascent erotic volatility. I then consider a maiden-king episode from <em>Sigrgarðs saga frækna</em>, which conversely defends young women’s active engagement in the marital and sexual spheres.…”