#they include east of the sun west of the moon. hercules. billy beg and the bull. anansi. niamh. and zlatavlaska the golden haired.

[friendrat]

I always read it as they were confident that their brother could beat the troll, but they didn't think they themselves could, so they were tricking the troll into letting them past. This is funnier, though.

Kinda fucked that the first two Billy Goats Gruff offered the third goat as a sacrifice. I don’t think this was an arrangement they made before they crossed the bridge, I think it was pure self-preservation. And if the third goat didn’t cross, they wouldn’t have said a fucking thing about it.

Do you think he knows? Or when he made it across did he go “Holy shit you guys there was a fucking troll under that bridge” and the other two just went “Whaaat? Oh my god are you okaaay? That’s craaazy! 🫢”