The jutal were a type of little people recorded by folklorist Thor Helgesson, included on a list of legendary creatures that Norwegian immigrants brought to Wisconsin. However, the description provided for the jutal was limited to saying they were dwarves found on the tops of mountains. This makes the jutal the most enigmatic of Wisconsin’s gnome legends. Furthering the mystery of the jutal is the fact that in the folklore of Norway itself, the term “jutal” is a name for a race of malevolent ice giants, not a name for a type of little people. This seems to imply that somewhere in the process of coming to Wisconsin, the legend of the jutal either evolved from ice giants to ice dwarves, or perhaps the ice giant legends were combined with Norwegian dwarf legends, hybridizing the two.