Approaching the troll's cave, "Holger's tobacco-dulled nose..." (p. 140) prevents him from smelling the troll until after the others:
"The wind was more or less in his face. He heard it go whoo-oo and shake his plume and cloak; he felt how chill it was. Nothing more." (ibid.)
Two senses, sound and feel, but not yet smell. However, when they reach the cave mouth, he gags at a stench described as "...thick and cold..." (ibid.)
And when they enter the cave:
"'I would we might see the stars once more,' Alianora said. The wind blew her words away." (ibid.)
The wind comments that her hope is in vain?
There follows an adventure in the cave.
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