Blind giant.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.1.1.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), APPENDIX, ch. 34
- SlavicRussian Folk-Tales, Chapter III
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 121121.— THE KING'S SON WHO FEAEED NOTHING
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 6, Canto 67
- NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 6
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- Icelandic*Boberg
- general Broderius § 37
- general Sweden: Runa III (1843) 41 No. 74, IV 37 No. 53
- general Hanover: Schambach u. Müller Niedersächsische Sagen (Göttingen, 1854) No. 165.1.