Giants with shaggy hair on their bodies

Motif

Giants with shaggy hair on their bodies.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.1.6.3

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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.

IcelandicArnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 150, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 153, Boberg
TirolZingerle (1891) Nos. 180, 186, 190
BabylonianGilgamesch-epos I 86ff., cf. 95ff.
general Broderius § 37

Within the index

Filed under Other bodily characteristics of giant.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Giant (giantess) with particularly long hair Giant without hair

Filed beside it

Giant with nails like claws Giant with teeth like those of saw Giant with long beard Giant with golden hair on forehead Giant with peculiar nose One-armed giant Giant's peculiar cheeks Giant rooted to ground because his nails and hair have grown into the earth on account of his great age Giant with unusual heart Giant (giantess) with hump Giant with one hand and one foot Giant's strength in hair. (Cf. D1831, G221.1.)Giantess with a tail (many tails)

Travels with

Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.)

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