Editing Trow (folklore) (section)

=== Etymology ===
The standard etymology derives the term trow from ''[[troll]]'' ({{langx|no|trold}}; {{langx|non|troll}}) of Scandinavian folklore.<ref name="snd-trow"/> Norwegian ''trold'' (''troll'') can signify not just a 'giant', but a 'specter, ghost' ({{lang|no|spøkelse}}) as well.<ref name="kvam"/><ref name="UIB-troll"/>

As an alternate etymology, [[John Jamieson]]'s Scottish dictionary conjectured that the word ''trow'' may be a corruption of Scandinavian ''draug''.<ref name="jamieson-dict-trow"/>{{efn|1=Australian female writer [[Henry Handel Richardson]] (aka Ethel F. L. Robertson) in her uncredited 1896 translation of [[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]'s ''Fiskerjenten'' (tr. ''The Fisher Lass'') rendered the Norwegian ''draug'' as "bogies", and defended this to her critical reviewer by noting ON ''draugr'' and Scots "drow" as the word's cognates.<ref name=richardsons-letters/> In her letter (writing as Miss Robertson) to ''Athenaeum'', she gives herself credit, as translator of the ''Fisher Lass''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H1lDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA314 "Siren Voices"] ''Athenaeum'' No. 3619, March 6, 1897, p. 314.</ref> Cf. her chronology of year 1896.{{sfnp|Probyn|Steele|2000|p=xv}}}} It may be worth noting that the Norwegian "sea-''draug''" ({{langx|no|draug}}; {{langx|da|søe-drau}},<ref name="egede"/> {{lang|da|søe-draul}}<ref name="pontoppidan-eng"/>) was either a sub-type or equivalent to the sea-troll/sea-trold, according to 18th century tracts by [[Dano-Norwegian]]s.<ref name="egede"/><ref name="pontoppidan-eng"/>{{efn|Pontoppidan wrote {{langx|da|"..Søe-Folke ogsaa kalde Søe-Draulen, det er Søe-Trolden"}}, so 'Sea-mischief' was the English translator's insertion. The form ''Draulen'' contains the definite article suffix ''-en'' but this may be dropped.}}