Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below

Motif

Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.9

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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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 285, *Boberg
DanishDanmarks Folkeminder No. 40 (1933) 71
NorseNorsk Folkminnelag XIII 28
SwissHenne-Am Rhyn No. 611
FrenchSébillot France I 232.
general Broderius § 21

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Filed under Gargantuan feats.

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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 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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