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F531.2.1.5. Giant reaches to the sky. Cf. 6låfTr ch. 33 in FIkr I 317.
F531.2.1.6. Giantess is twice as tall as tall man. OOdd 121 (FAS II 234).
F531.2.2. Giant with three spåns between brows and three yards between shoulders.
F531.2.2.1. Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide. KetilH 118 ch. 3.
F531.2.4. Giant"s large footprints. Yngv 19-20: eight feet long; HålfdBr 569 ch. 4:
four or seven elbowlengths; Ålafl 92 ch. V 9 (and HålfdBr l.c., GrimL 147 ch. 1):
and so long distance between that one has to pull oneself from print to print
by means of an axe.
F531.2.5. Extremely fat giant.
F531.2.5.1. Giantess is more broad than tall. EgÅsm V 10 (FAS III 372); PorstUxaf
258 (FMS III 124, Fjlsl 456).
F531.2.8. Giant can find only one horse able to carry him. PiSr II 380-81.
F531.2.13. Giantess so heavy that boat almost sinks. SturlSt 620 ch. 16; cf. SigrgFr
68 ch. 8.
F531.3. Gargantuan feats.
F531.3.1. Giant (giantess) wades the ocean. Skåldsk ch. 27 (18) and Skj I 140-41:
Thor, cf. Vries 226, KrappeÉtudes 79 (le dieu du gué), and F. R. Schroder in
PBB LI 35; OOdd 42 ch. 10 (ch. XI 6-9, FAS II 182); KetilH 131 ch. 5; SturlSt
619 ch. 16; PorstVik 435 ch. 19; SigrgFr 68-69 ch. 8; Pi6r I 75-76.
F531.3.1.3. Thor carries giant in basket across icy stream. Skåldsk ch. 25 (17).
F531.3.2. Giant (giantess) throws a great rock. Hårb 29; Grotta 12; OOdd 40-45
(ch. XI 1-6, FAS II 181-84, 517); UlfU ch. 3.
F531.3.4. Giant (giantess) eats (drinks) prodigious amount. Cf. A133.1; F632. EgÅsm
V 16-17 (FAS III 373).
F531.3.5. Giant steps prodigious distance.
F531.3.5.4.* Giantess steps so heavily during fighting that she sinks into the earth to
the knees. SorlaSt 414, 423 ch. 3, 8.
F531.3.8. Giants' shouts are storms or great noise.
F531.3.8.1. Giant’s snoring as thunder or storm. Gylf ch. 27-28 (45) = MC 92;
SorlaSt 412 ch. 3; Pi3r I 361.
F531.3.8.2. Giant’s snoring felt as rain. Pi5r I 79.
F531.3.8.3. Homecoming giant heard far away. Bår5Sn 32 ch. 15; HålfdE XVII 7
(FAS III 545); Alafl V 10-11; Porgr 24 ch. 5; Blomst 38 ch. 24; Brag6 48 ch. 2.
Cf. Hym 10.
F531.3.8.4. Giantess sings so that it gives echo in all cliffs. JarlmH 35 ch. 18 (cf.
14 ch. 10).
F531.3.8.5. Earthquake as giant falis down. Pi5r II 384.
F531.3.8.5.1. Earthquake by giant's wrestling. JarlmH 36 ch. 18: »ålfar«.
F531.3.9. Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below. HHj p. 173; Ldb
52 ad ch. 125. Cf. SturlSt 621-22 ch. 16; MC 280.
F531.3.13. Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden. Cf. F331.5.1.1; F631. Grett
ch. LXII 7; Floam ch. 24; PorstVik 438 ch. 19: giantess runs uphill with man;
HålfdBr 577 ch. 9; KåraK 14 ch. 6.
F531.3.13.1. Giant carries prodigious hunting prey (bear, whales). HålfdE ch. XVII
15 (FAS III 546); PorstVik 425 ch. 15; ÅsmFl 172; Stark 20 ch. 6; Fertram ch.
10. Cf. Boberg in Da. Studier 1945, 4 ad DgF 18.