Trolls today are thought of as either cute, naked rubber dolls or someone lurking in the shadows of the digital wilderness. Mythology has it that trolls are giant supernatural beings that live ...

Dam was spending all of his time carving troll dolls to sell. Soon after, he opened a factory and switched to the more economical method of making the bodies out of rubber stuffed with wood shavings.

Construction of a much-anticipated giant troll sculpture was completed Friday afternoon at the campus of the nonprofit Nordic Northwest in Southwest Portland near Washington Square mall.