μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Giants as builders of great structures.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.6.6

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • English Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem)
  • Icelandic Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 49, MacCulloch Eddic 276, 278, 286, Boberg
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 25ff., (1931) 15ff. (churches)
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 67 No. 580, 68 No. 582, 69f. Nos. 593–97
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3714.
  • general Broderius § 2
  • general Wünsche Teufel 19
  • general **Höttges FFC CXXII 49ff., 218ff.
  • general Fb "kirke" II 124a
Within the index

Filed under Other giant motifs.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Giants by night move buildings built by men in day Giant builds hill for his home Giant digs trench for course of Severn River Giant makes cleft in rock when he misses another giant with spade blow Giant and his wife build Roman road in a trice. Giant paves; wife brings stones
Filed beside it
Origin of giants. (Cf. F531.5.7.1.2.) Haunts of giants Homes of giants Age of giants Giants as magicians Giant's treasure. (Cf. F531.6.8.3.1.) Mutual relations of giants Giants as warriors (in army) Other occupations of giants Antipathies of giants Disappearance or death of giants Graves of giants Ghost of giant Giants and supernatural beings Attendants of the giants Other acts of giants
Carried in tale types

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