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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
HringH 54 ch. 22: »i Mundi'afjollum«; Sigt* 220 ch. 40; VilhSj 17 ch. 8 (ZDPh
XXVI 9): Lucan; Jokuls s. Buasonar, ed. Kjaln, Groningen 1911 p. 75, and Hell
3, 9, 50 ch. 1 ff., 7, 26: Surtshellir etc.; Bergbua [låttr, ed. Vigfusson in Nord.
Oldskr. XXVII 1860, 123 ff.; GunnarK p. 241; Blomst 20 ch. 13: Lucanus in
Diabolus; Ector ch. 10; KåraK 10, 36 ch. 5, 18; Bragå 48 ch. 2; Huld no. 6;
Andr 70; Årm ch. 16; Saxo lib. VIII c. XV 4-9 = Herrm 597 ff.
F531.6.2.2. Giants live under sea.
F531.6.2.2.3. Giant’s home beneath waterfall in lake. Cf. F426. Grett ch. 66; Andr
54, 70. Cf. Heinzel 53; Dehmer 51 ff.; Schlauch 109.
F531.6.2.3. Giants (troli) live in the east. Vsp 40; Hårb 1, 23, 29; Hym 36; Ls 60;
Skåldsk ch. 25 (17), 42 (33); MC 81. Cf. Ys ch. 1: in Sweden.
F531.6.2.4. Giants live in the utmost north (west). Cf. E481.6.1; H945.2. VilhSj 52
ch. 23 (ZDPh XXVI 6): »svo komit nærri solarsetri, at bar verår alldrei bjart-
ara enn bar sér stjornur um miåjan dag, en bå bu kemr å bat land utanvert,
sér bu blomligt land meå grosum og aldintrjåm, og um miånætti skin bar sol«.
Cf. Vries 399.
F531.6.2.5. Giants live at the world’s end. Ålafl XIV 12.
F531.6.3. Homes of giants. EgÅsm ch. 14 ff., SamsF ch. 16, f>orgr 26 ch. 5: Risaland
or Jotunheimar, without nearer definition.
F531.6.5. Giants as magicians. BåråSn 14-17 ch. 8: Hetta in Ennisfjall is »en mesta
hamhleypa«; UlfU ch. 3; Andr 70-71.
F531.6.5.2. Giants large or small at will. SturlSt 622 ch. 16; Saxo lib. I c. VI 3.
F531.6.5.3. Giant has wound-healing balm. Cf. F451.5.1.10. EgÅsm XIV 13-15 (FAS
III 396); J*orstVlk 438 ch. 19; Ålafl XIV 9-10; HringH 8, 17 ch. 4, 7; Blomst
39-41 ch. 24; KåraK 12 ch. 5.
F531.6.5.4. Giants as controllers of the elements. Cf. A197; D2140. OOdd 46-47 (ch.
XII 6, FAS II 184, 519); SturlSt 619-20 ch. 16: give fair wind; HålfdBr 569-71
ch. 4-5; SorlaSt 410-12 ch. 2-4; EgÅsm IX 6 ff.; VilhSj in ZDPh XXVI 6-7:
giant ogres profit of their control over the elements to attrack victims; Hell
3-4 ch. 1; MC 75, 276.
F531.6.6. Giants as builders ofgreat structures. Vsp 25, Gylf ch. 25 (42), cf. Leyen 38.
F531.6.6.1. Giants by night move buddings built by men in day. Cf. D2192.
F531.6.7. Giant’s treasure.
F531.6.7.1. Giantpossesses treasure. f>rym 6; Skåldsk ch. 4 (56); OOdd 124-25 (FAS
II 237-39); Yngv 34; Fiår I 364-66; Amb 178 ch. 38 (37); GunnarK 241.
F531.6.7.1.1. Giants have animals. Cf. F531.4.11. Skfrn 11: dogs; Frym 6: dogs, hor-
ses, 24: cattle; Skåldsk ch. 25 (17): horse; EgÅsm IX 7: goats.
F531.6.7.1.2. The giants’ ship Naglfar. Cf. E481.2.2. Vsp 50 (47,43); Gylf ch. 26 (43),
37, 38 (51) = MC 340, Saussaye 351, Vries 35; H. Lie in Maal og Minne 1954,
152-61.
F531.6.7.2. Giant obtains treasure from man.
F531.6.7.2.1. Giant steals from man. Grett LXII 1-14: fish; BåråSn 27-36 ch. 14-16:
sheep, cattle; Sigb ch. 16: sword.
F531.6.7.3.* Treasure taken from giant. Cf. D838.6; G610. HålfdE XXVI 5 (FAS III
556); HjOlv 488, 490, ch. 13-14; KåraK 12, 15, 40 ch. 5, 7, 18.
F531.6.8. Mutual relations of giants.
F531.6.8.1. Giant in love with giantess. Hversu Noregr byggåist and Fundinn Noregr
in Flb I 22 and 220 (FAS II 4, 20).