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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 7988691" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Hence why the question of trowe = troll or trowe = draugr or some combination of the two is unclear.As you'll see if you read the Orkney culture website linked above, the usage is difficult to line up, but believed to be more aligned with Draugr than Troll.That said, the line between what is a Troll and what is a Draugr is much less clear in Old Norse than you make it out to be. Different terms have referred to the same mythic creatures, and the same term has referred to different mythic creatures. Our knowledge of Old Norse and usage is not as clear cut as reading Snorri might make one think.And then of course, in Shetland, Trolls and Trowes are seen as separate creatures entirely - Trolls are more like the Norse Troll, and Trowes act more like the Norse Draugr.Language drift. But this is all an aside - even if Drow were based on Trolls, the Norse stories don't make much of a connection between the Dwarves and the (Ice) Giants. Duergar=Drow is a misconception due to Svartalfar=Duergar=Dark Elf=Dwarf. Dark Elf is an appropriate term for a Dwarf in Norse myth. Drow is not.But in D&D, Dark Elf=Drow, because Gygax. This is okay. Meanings shift.</blockquote>