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

Filed across the traditions

Icel. De la Saussaye 246
Persian Carnoy 324
Babylonian Spence 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)