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Motif

Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Murder by strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K912.1

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“Thus sang Olfr Uggason: Swiftly the Far-Famed rideth, The Foretelling God, to the fire speeds, To the wide pyre of his offspring; Through my cheeks praise-songs are pouring. Thus sang Thjodolfr of Hvin: The slain lay there sand-strewing. Spoil for the Single- Eyed Dweller in Frigg's bosom; In such deeds we rejoiced. Hallfredr sang thus: The doughty ship-possessor With sharpened words and soothfast Lures our land, the patient.”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Skáldskaparmál II · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house.

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Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter houseRobbers' (giants') hands cut off as they enter houseMen lured into serpent pit one by one and killedOgre suitor persuaded by woman to bury her murdered lover: she cuts off his head

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