μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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
  • EnglishWells 80 (Sir Tristrem)
  • IcelandicArnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 49, MacCulloch Eddic 276, 278, 286, Boberg
  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 25ff., (1931) 15ff. (churches)
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 67 No. 580, 68 No. 582, 69f. Nos. 593–97
  • LithuanianBalys 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 dayGiant builds hill for his homeGiant digs trench for course of Severn RiverGiant makes cleft in rock when he misses another giant with spade blowGiant 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 giantsHomes of giantsAge of giantsGiants as magiciansGiant'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
Carried in tale types

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