The wired anchor lands one war early: Zeus and his disgorged siblings fight Cronus and the Titans for ten years, until "Earth prophesied victory" if he freed Tartarus's prisoners; armed then by the Cyclopes, "the gods overcame the Titans" and "cast lots for the sovereignty" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. II]. The giant-fight proper sits on the pages Thompson starred, also served: Earth, "vexed on account of the Titans, brought forth the giants", serpent-footed hurlers of "rocks and burning oaks at the sky"; since by oracle "none of the giants could perish at the hand of gods" alone, the mortal Hercules finishes every kill [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VI]. In the North the war is a condition, not an episode: Thor keeps a ledger — "Thjazi I felled, | the giant fierce" — and pleads census-defense: were all giants alive, "No men would there be | in Mithgarth more" [The Poetic Edda, HARBARTHSLJOTH]. At the world's end it closes pair by pair: "In giant-wrath | does the serpent writhe", and "Against the serpent | goes Othin’s son" [The Poetic Edda, VOLUSPO]. Greece: a war won. The North: a war held, then lost with everything. (The Vafthruthnismol candidate is a riddle-match with a giant, not a battle — noise.)