Originally posted by Tsela:

wood shield. Pick a troll which is not holding a tree trunk, parry and smack him. Buckler, you parry and smack any troll senseless until he stares at you like Hawkins. use any weapon. even your axe will do. Spear might be faster to kill him, whatever.

Wood shield cant parry a troll , his damage whitout a log is 50 , and wood shield parry for 28 ( 41 if you have block skill at 100 but thats not possible in that part of the game )
With a bronze buckler lvl 3 its another story of course