Sentence:  The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees , and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood <WSD>gods</WSD> rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force