Giants' shouts are storms or great noise

Motif

Giants' shouts are storms or great noise.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.8

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 166
SwedishFeilberg Jul II 56
general Broderius § 16. Irish myth: Cross
general Norse
general Norsk Folkekultur IX 99
general Westphalia: Zaunert Westfälische 6, 11. Cf. Rip Van Winkle.

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Filed under Gargantuan feats.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Giant's snoring as thunder or storm Giant's snoring felt as rain Homecoming giant heard far away Giantess sings so that it gives echo in all cliffs Earthquake as giant falls down

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 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

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