33-634: The Tittabawassee River ( / ˈ t ɪ t ə b ə ˈ w ɑː s i / TIH -tə-bə- WAH -see ) flows in a generally southeasterly direction through the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan . The river begins at Secord Lake in Clement Township , at the confluence of the East Branch and the Middle Branch. From there it flows through Gladwin , Midland and Saginaw counties where, as
66-474: A collective term for supernatural beings who should be respected and avoided rather than worshipped. Troll could later have become specialized as a description of the larger, more menacing Jötunn-kind whereas Huldrefolk may have developed as the term for smaller trolls. John Arnott MacCulloch posited a connection between the Old Norse vættir and trolls, suggesting that both concepts may derive from spirits of
99-581: A dike breaking at Poseyville, resulting in major flooding in Midland County. 10,000 people were evacuated including a seniors home and a few hospital patients. Two emergency shelters had to be relocated due to flooding and electrical power losses. Floodwater entered the Dow Chemical plant, forcing its shutdown and mixing with its containment ponds, leading to concern over pollution. The next day, water levels were predicted to reach 38 feet: four feet higher than
132-673: A major tributary of the Saginaw River , it flows into it at Saginaw . Its tributaries include the Chippewa , Pine , Molasses , Sugar , and Tobacco rivers. Significant communities on or near the Tittabawassee River include Saginaw, Midland , and Sanford . At Edenville, the river was impounded by the hydroelectric Edenville Dam to create Wixom Lake . It was also impounded by a hydroelectric dam in Sanford to create Sanford Lake prior to
165-451: Is a term applied to jötnar and is mentioned throughout the Old Norse corpus. In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together (usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly. The Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál describes an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason . According to
198-442: Is either Briar Hill at 1,705 feet (520 m), or one of several points nearby in the vicinity of Cadillac . The lowest point is at the shore of Lake Erie at 571 feet (174 m). The western coast features extensive sandy beaches and dunes produced by Lake Michigan and the prevailing winds from the west. The relatively shallow Saginaw Bay is surrounded by a similarly shallow drainage basin . Several large river systems flow into
231-549: Is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Indiana and Ohio . Although the Upper Peninsula is commonly referred to as "the U.P.", it is uncommon for the Lower Peninsula to be called "the L.P.". Because of its recognizable shape, the Lower Peninsula is nicknamed The Mitten , with the eastern region identified as " The Thumb ". This has led to several folkloric creation myths for
264-607: The Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game . Beginning in the 1950s, Troll dolls were a popular toy based on the folklore creature. Trolls based on the dolls appeared in the Hollywood animated movie Trolls (2016) and its subsequent sequels Trolls World Tour (2020), and Trolls Band Together (2023). Troll is the name, and main antagonist, of a 2022 Norwegian movie released by Netflix on December 1, 2022. The Danish artist Thomas Dambo has created from recycled wood
297-603: The National Audubon Society have designated several locations as internationally Important Bird Areas . The Lower Peninsula is dominated by a geological basin known as the Michigan Basin . That feature is represented by a nearly circular pattern of geologic sedimentary strata in the area with a nearly uniform structural dip toward the center of the peninsula. The basin is centered in Gladwin County where
330-523: The Precambrian basement rocks are 16,000 feet (4,900 m) deep. Around the margins, such as under Mackinaw City, Michigan , the Precambrian surface is around 4,000 feet (1,200 m) down. This 4,000-foot (1,200 m) contour on the bedrock clips the northern part of the lower peninsula and continues under Lake Michigan along the west. It crosses the southern counties of Michigan and continues on to
363-614: The Lower Peninsula as "flat-landers" (referring to the region's less rugged terrain) or " trolls " (because, being south of the Mackinac Bridge , they " live under the bridge "). The Lower Peninsula is bounded on the west by Lake Michigan and on the northeast by Lake Huron , which connect at the Straits of Mackinac . In the southeast, the waterway consisting of the St. Clair River , Lake St. Clair , Detroit River , and Lake Erie separates it from
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#1732856129766396-424: The Lower Peninsula is 277 miles (446 km) long from north to south and 195 miles (314 km) from east to west. It contains nearly two-thirds of Michigan's total land area. The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall, most common in the north. The highest point in the Lower Peninsula is not definitely established, but
429-528: The Southern Lower Peninsula—which is largely urban or farmland. Southern Lower Michigan is sometimes further divided into economic and cultural subregions. The more culturally and economically diverse Lower Peninsula dominates Michigan politics, and maps of it without the Upper Peninsula are sometimes mistakenly presented as "Michigan", which contributes to resentment by "Yoopers" (residents of "the U.P"). Yoopers jokingly refer to residents of
462-408: The absence of trolls in regions of Scandinavia is described in folklore as being a "consequence of the constant din of the church-bells". This ringing caused the trolls to leave for other lands, although not without some resistance; numerous traditions relate how trolls destroyed a church under construction or hurled boulders and stones at completed churches. Large local stones are sometimes described as
495-614: The adjacent Great Lakes, including the Kalamazoo , Grand , Muskegon , and Manistee rivers (Lake Michigan), and the Au Sable and Tittabawassee – Shiawassee – Saginaw rivers (Lake Huron). Because of the networks of rivers and numerous lakes, no point on land is more than six miles (9.7 km) from one of these bodies of water, and at most 85 miles (137 km) from one of the Great Lakes (near Lansing ). The American Bird Conservancy and
528-521: The area, one being that it is a handprint of Paul Bunyan , a giant lumberjack and popular European-American folk character in Michigan. When asked where they live, Lower Peninsula residents may hold up their right palm and point to a spot on it to indicate the location. The peninsula is sometimes divided into the Northern Lower Peninsula —which is more sparsely populated and largely forested—and
561-536: The dam failures and resulting flooding on May 19, 2020. In Saginaw County, the river flows through Tittabawassee Township , which is named for the river and contains the unincorporated community of Freeland . The main river is 72.4 miles (116.5 km) long and drains an area of 2,471 square miles (6,400 km). On May 19, 2020, the Edenville Dam failed, followed by the Sanford Dam downstream being overtopped and
594-523: The dead. Troll , a Norwegian research station in Antarctica , is so named because of the rugged mountains which stand around that place like trolls. It includes a ground station which tracks satellites in polar orbit . Trolls have appeared in many works of modern fiction, most often in the fantasy genre, with classic examples being the portrayal of trolls in works such as in Tolkien's Middle-earth or
627-697: The end dangerous, regardless of how well they might get along with Christian society, and trolls display a habit of bergtagning ('kidnapping'; literally "mountain-taking") and overrunning a farm or estate. Lindow states that the etymology of the word "troll" remains uncertain, though he defines trolls in later Swedish folklore as "nature beings" and as "all-purpose otherworldly being[s], equivalent, for example, to fairies in Anglo - Celtic traditions". They "therefore appear in various migratory legends where collective nature-beings are called for". Lindow notes that trolls are sometimes swapped out for cats and "little people" in
660-456: The flood of 1986. National Guard units and a FEMA team were brought in to assist. Lower Peninsula of Michigan The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the larger, southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan ; the other being the Upper Peninsula , which is separated by the Straits of Mackinac . It
693-399: The folklore record. A Scandinavian folk belief that lightning frightens away trolls and jötnar appears in numerous Scandinavian folktales, and may be a late reflection of the god Thor 's role in fighting such beings. In connection, the lack of trolls and jötnar in modern Scandinavia is sometimes explained as a result of the "accuracy and efficiency of the lightning strokes". Additionally,
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#1732856129766726-489: The north beneath Lake Huron . Most monthly temperatures in the lower peninsula range from a low of 14 degrees to a high of 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Michigan's Lower Peninsula can be divided into four main regions based on geological, soil, and vegetation differences; amount of urban areas or rural areas; minority populations; and agriculture . The four principal regions listed below can further be separated into sub-regions and overlapping areas. Interstate Highways in
759-670: The poem Beowulf emphasizes not the harrying of Grendel but the cleansing of the hall of Beowulf, so the modern tales stress the moment when the trolls are driven off." Smaller trolls are attested as living in burial mounds and in mountains in Scandinavian folk tradition. In Denmark, these creatures are recorded as troldfolk ("troll-folk"), bjergtrolde ("mountain-trolls"), or bjergfolk ("mountain-folk") and in Norway also as trollfolk ("troll-folk") and tusser . Trolls may be described as small, human-like beings or as tall as men depending on
792-515: The product of a troll's toss. Additionally, into the 20th century, the origins of particular Scandinavian landmarks, such as particular stones, are ascribed to trolls who may, for example, have turned to stone upon exposure to sunlight. Lindow compares the trolls of the Swedish folk tradition to Grendel , the supernatural mead hall invader in the Old English poem Beowulf , and notes that "just as
825-600: The province of Ontario , Canada. It is bounded on the south by the states of Indiana and Ohio . This border is irregular: the border with Indiana was moved 10 miles northward from its territorial position to give Indiana more access to Lake Michigan, and its slightly angled border with Ohio was part of the compromise which ended the Toledo War . The Lower Peninsula is a part of the Great Lakes Plain, which include large parts of Wisconsin and Ohio. At its widest points,
858-860: The region include: U.S. Highways in the region include: The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. 43°40′N 84°45′W / 43.667°N 84.750°W / 43.667; -84.750 Trolls A troll is a being in Nordic folklore , including Norse mythology . In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings. In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized , and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on
891-589: The region of origin of the story. In Norwegian tradition, similar tales may be told about the larger trolls and the Huldrefolk ("hidden-folk"), yet a distinction is made between the two. The use of the word trow in Orkney and Shetland, to mean beings which are very like the Huldrefolk in Norway, may suggest a common origin for the terms. The word troll may have been used by pagan Norse settlers in Orkney and Shetland as
924-400: The same as human beings, without any particularly hideous appearance about them, but living far away from human habitation and generally having "some form of social organization"—unlike the rå and näck , who are attested as "solitary beings". According to John Lindow , what sets them apart is that they are not Christian, and those who encounter them do not know them. Therefore, trolls were in
957-404: The section, Bragi was driving through "a certain forest" late one evening when a troll woman aggressively asked him who he was, in the process describing herself: Old Norse : Anthony Faulkes translation: John Lindow translation: Bragi responds in turn, describing himself and his abilities as a skillful skald , before the scenario ends. There is much confusion and overlap in
990-608: The source, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted, or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them. Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks in Scandinavian folklore, which at times may be explained as formed from a troll exposed to sunlight. Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture. The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll (variously meaning "fiend, demon, werewolf , jötunn ") and Middle High German troll, trolle "fiend" (according to philologist Vladimir Orel ,
1023-629: The term is used to denote various beings, such as a jötunn or mountain-dweller, a witch, an abnormally strong or large or ugly person, an evil spirit, a ghost, a blámaðr , a magical boar, a heathen demi-god, a demon, a brunnmigi , or a berserker . Later in Scandinavian folklore, trolls become defined as a particular type of being. Numerous tales are recorded about trolls in which they are frequently described as being extremely old, very strong, but slow and dim-witted, and are at times described as man-eaters and as turning to stone upon contact with sunlight. However, trolls are also attested as looking much
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1056-508: The use of Old Norse terms jötunn , troll , þurs , and risi , which describe various beings. Lotte Motz theorized that these were originally four distinct classes of beings: lords of nature ( jötunn ), mythical magicians ( troll ), hostile monsters ( þurs ), and heroic and courtly beings ( risi ), the last class being the youngest addition. On the other hand, Ármann Jakobson is critical of Motz's interpretation and calls this theory "unsupported by any convincing evidence". Ármann highlights that
1089-573: The word is likely borrowed from Old Norse), possibly developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun * trullan , meaning "to tread, step on". The origin of the Proto-Germanic word is unknown. Additionally, the Old Norse verb trylla 'to enchant, to turn into a troll' and the Middle High German verb trüllen "to flutter" both developed from the Proto-Germanic verb * trulljanan , a derivative of * trullan . In Norse mythology, troll , like thurs ,
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