μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.13

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Hálfdanar saga Br. 577, Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Giant carries prodigious hunting-prey (whales, bear) Giant allows others to cling to him while he swims with them safely across the rivers
Filed beside it
Giant wades the ocean Giant throws a great rock Giant astride a church-roof. Rides it like a horse Giant eats (drinks) prodigious amount Giant steps prodigious distance Giants carry church across a stream Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) Giants' shouts are storms or great noise Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.) Giant swallows men Giant's hunting (fishing) Beam breaks at giant's glance Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives

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