Fettered monster's escape at end of world. Giant, or monster, is fettered in depths of the earth. His movement causes earthquakes. When he succeeds in freeing himself from the fetters and escapes, the world will end

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Fettered monster's escape at end of world. Giant, or monster, is fettered in depths of the earth. His movement causes earthquakes. When he succeeds in freeing himself from the fetters and escapes, the world will end.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Fettered monster's escape at end of world. · view the constellation · filed as A1070

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Icel.De la Saussaye 246
PersianCarnoy 324
BabylonianSpence 78.
general *Olrik Ragnarök 278, 478ff. s.v. "Erdbebenriese", "Schlange", "Raubtier", "Ungeheuer", Danske Studier (1913) 3ff.
general Anholm Danske Studier (1904) 141
general *Krohn Der gefangene Unhold
general *Von der Leyen Der gefesselte Unhold. – Irish myth: Cross
general Lettish and Lithuanian: Gray 322

Within the index

5 finer motifs beneath it

Birth of monsters as sign at end of world Fettering of underground monster Form of fettered monster Fettered monster's captivity End of world heralded by coming of Antichrist, a gigantic destructive one-eyed monster

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Odin battles Fenris Wolf at end of world. (Cf. A1070.)Dragon lives under the ground. By his movements a building or village will be dislodged. (Cf. A1070.)

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