Giant eats (drinks) prodigious amount

Motif

Giant eats (drinks) prodigious amount.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.4

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 86, 89, 171, 275, *Boberg
NorwegianNorske Folkminnelag II 28, XIII 23
SwedishSydow Jättarna
SwissHenne-Am Rhyn 2 No. 596
TirolZingerle (1891) No. 217
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys.
general Broderius § 23. Irish myth: *Cross
general Westphalia: Kuhn No. 129
general Gaster Thespis 329

Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Giant eats a thousand cattle Giant drinks up a river (lake, sea)Giant eats whales as small fry

Filed beside it

Giant wades the ocean Giant throws a great rock Giant astride a church-roof. Rides it like a horse 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)Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden Beam breaks at giant's glance Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives

wander