Wise giant as foster father of hero

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Wise giant as foster father of hero.

Chance and fate. · Helpers. · Supernatural helpers. · view the constellation · filed as N812.1

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IcelandicOlrik Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 40ff., *Boberg.

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Filed under Giant or ogre as helper.

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