Many-headed giant — Mythoi

Motif

Many-headed giant.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.1.2.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Norse The Poetic Edda , HYMISKVITHA HYMISKVITHA
Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 29 CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic De la Saussaye 329, MacCulloch Eddic 87, 173, Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Head of giant.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Two-headed giant Three-headed giant Five-headed giant Six-headed giant Nine-headed giant Ten-headed giant Many-headed giant – miscellaneous

Filed beside it

Gigantic head Headless giant. (Cf. F511.0.1.) [First Edition: F531.1.2.5. Fifty-headed giant.] Giant's self-returning head Giant with horse head Giant with stone head

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