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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
F531.3.15. Giants' awful amusements playing with meris lives. BårdSn 25-27 ch. 13
(»skinnleikr«); HrolfG 36 ch. 22 and in FAS III 124 ch. 19.
F531.4. Gigantic possessions of giant.
F531.4.5. Giant's enormous weapons.
F531.4.5.1. Giant with iron club (gadclub) as weapon. GHrolf 322 ch. 30; SigrFr 87-88
ch. 12; Forgr 8 ch. 1; HringH 36 ch. 15; HéSinH 14, 16 ch. 7, 8; Bevers 235-36
ch. 18; Ector ch. 8, 14; Fertram ch. 9 (ZDPh XXVI 23); KåraK 13 ch. 6; tJlfU
ch. 2; Andr 20.
F531.4.5.2. Giant with iron bar as weapon. Cf. G159.2. OkifTr ch. 33 in Hkr I 317;
BårOSn 3-4 ch. 2; OOdd 42 (ch. XI 6-9, FAS II 182); Ålafl XVII 3-5; FiOr I
49, 55-56, 61, 258, 362-63, II 70, 80-81, 390-92; Forgr 24 ch. 5; Sigb 225-26 ch.
41-42; SigrgFr 93 ch. 15; Kongab 27; Stark 46 ch. 15; Bevers 229 ch. 15; Blomst
39 ch. 24; Ector ch. 5, 21. Cf. Liestøl NT 198.
F531.4.5.3. Giant has stone club. Cf. G316. Skåldsk ch. 25 (17) = MC 282.
F531.4.5.4. Giant has stone shield. Skåldsk ch. 25 (17).
F531.4.7. Giant’s clothes.
F531.4.7.1. Giants (giantesses) dressed in skin. Cf. F455.24. Nornag 69 ch. 8 (Flb
I 355, FAS I 333); SturlSt 621-22 ch. 16; Andr 68-69; Vald 63 ch. 1; cf. names
as Skinnhufa in HjOlv 471 ch. 9, BåråSn 17 ch. 9, and UlfU ch. 4; Skinnbrok,
Skinnkjapta in UlfU l.c.
F531.4.7.1.2. Giantess in obscenely shrivelled skin skirt. Jokuls s. Buasonar, ed. Kjaln
1911 p. 75; EgÅsm XI 1 (FAS III 387); GrimL 149 ch. 2; ForstVik 435 ch. 19;
HjOlv 482-83 ch. 12; SturlSt 619-20 ch. 16; IllGr 653, 656 ch. 4, 5; Ålafl 93
ch. V 12; Kongab 23 ff.; Sigf> ch. 19-21; UlfU ch. 1.
F531.4.7.3. Giantess in red dress. ForstUxaf 258 (FMS III 124-5, Fjfsl 456).
F531.4.8. Giant has stone (as) boat. OOdd 118 (FAS II 231); fven XIII 13; SigrgFr
87 ch. 12; Kongab 24; Vald 65-66 ch. 1. Cf. LiestølNT 198: stone or iron boat.
F531.4.9. Giant's (giantess’s) huge kettle. Cf. H1336. Hym 5, 15; Ls in BuggeE
113; EgÅsm V 16-17 (FAS III 373).
F531.4.10. Giant's enormous bed. Forgr 24 ch. 5; cf. KåraK 15 ch. 7.
F531.4.11. Giant’s enormous animals.
F531.4.11.1. Giants have wolf and bears as dogs. Cf. A165.2.1.1.1; B292; B575.1;
F531.6.7.1.1. OOdd 122-24 (FAS II 235-37).
F531.5. Giants and men. Cf. F531.6.12.7.
F531.5.1. Giant friendly to man. Cf. D812.ll; F531.5.7.0.3; F531.6.1.2; G530;
H1239.5; N812; R138. Ldb ch. 375, cf. K170.1; Grett LVII 6-10 (cf. LXI 10-13,
LXII 1-14); OOdd 46-47, 124-25 (ch. XII 6; FAS II 184-86, 237-39, 519-20);
GrimL 149-50 ch. 2; ForstVik 435 ch. 19; BårdSn 12 ff. ch. 6, 8, 9; Forgr 23-27
ch. 5; Årnason I 167.
F531.5.1.1. Giant carries man in his pocket (glove, bosom).
F531.5.1.1.4. Giant carries man under his belt. Yngv 20.
F531.5.2. Man mistakes giant’s glove for house. Ls 60, 62; Gylf ch. 27 (45); cf.
Hårb 26; Vries 226.
F531.5.4. Giant thinks hammer-blow on head is a nut falling. Man strikes with all
his might. Gylf ch. 27 (45); MC 92.