Sunlight turns giant or troll to stone

Motif

Sunlight turns giant or troll to stone.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.6.12.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 277, 282, 285, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 154, Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 124, Boberg.
general Broderius § 7

Within the index

Filed under Disappearance or death of giants.

Filed beside it

Disappearance of giants Slain giant turns to salt stone Giants killed by lightning or thunder (personified in the thunder-god). (Cf. F531.6.11.1.)Giant killed by earthquake Giant slain by man. (Cf. F531.6.9, F628.2.3, G500.)Giants driven away by men Giant drowned

Travels with

Trolls turn to stone at sunrise. (Cf. F531.6.12.2.)

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