μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 586ff., 595, MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Other giant motifs.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Men not to disclose giant's home. (Cf. C420.)Giants live in castles (raths, duns) (ruins of which may still be seen)Giant lives in fairyland
Filed beside it
Origin of giants. (Cf. F531.5.7.1.2.)Haunts of giantsAge of giantsGiants as magiciansGiants as builders of great structuresGiant's treasure. (Cf. F531.6.8.3.1.)Mutual relations of giantsGiants as warriors (in army)Other occupations of giantsAntipathies of giantsDisappearance or death of giantsGraves of giantsGhost of giantGiants and supernatural beingsAttendants of the giantsOther acts of giants

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