Many-headed giant

Motif

Many-headed giant.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

NorseThe Poetic Edda, HYMISKVITHAHYMISKVITHA
IrishGods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, Ch. 29CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IcelandicDe 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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