Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other

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Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Giant ogres. · Giant ogres – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as G151

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *Fb "økse" III 1171b. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3711.

Within the index

Filed under Giant ogres – miscellaneous.

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