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G510.4. Hero overcomes devastating animal. Cf. B16.
G511. Ogre blinded. Cf. S165. HrolfG 34-37 ch. 22-23 (FAS III 119-27); EgÅsm
45-48 ch. X 1-14 (ib. 384-86); cf. HålfH ch. X 7-10; Reuschel 112.
G512. Ogre killed. Cf. F531.6.12.6; Z312.3.
G512.6. Giant killed by cutting his foot {feet) off. Cf. S162. Yngv 19-20; t>idr II
377-84.
G512.7. Backbone of ogre 's old mother broken. Cf. G275.8; H1562.8. BårOSn 34-35
ch. 16; OrmSt 530.
G514. Ogre captured. Cf. G671.
G519. Ogre killed through other tricks. Cf. K337; K824.1; K1011.
G519.1. Ogre's wife killed through other tricks.
G519.1.3. Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed. JarlmH 39-41 ch. 21-23, cf. T58.
G519.2. Ogre killed with his own iron bar. Cf. F531.4.5.2; K818.2; Z312.2. HjOlv
487-88 ch. 13; Fi6r I 389-92.
G519.5. Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the
strokes of his iron bar, untill he falls down dead. Sigb 222, 226 ch. 41-42.
G530. Ogre’s relative aids hero. Cf. F531.5.7.1.2; R162.
G530.1. Help from ogre's wife (mistress). Cf. J155. Håv 108; Hym 8-9, cf. MC 54,
87, Leyen 46; Part 34-35: abducted woman. Cf. Dehmer 81 ff.
G530.2. Help from ogre's daughter (or son). Kjaln ch. 14 ff.; HålfdBr 574-75 ch. 7;
HjOlv 471-73 ch. 9; EgÅsm V 5 ff.; ÅsmFl 174-76; OrmSt 530; HringH 6-9
ch. 2-3; Vald 58 ch. 1; Blomst 39-41 ch. 24. Cf. LorstVlk 430 ch. 16; Vilm ch.
12-13.
G530.5. Help from old woman in ogre's house. Cf. EgÅsm XV 18 (FAS III 400).
G532. Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he
smells human biood. Cf. HaraldHårf ch. 32 in Hkr I 145; Fær ch. 10, cf. Liestøl
Upph 157-58.
G535. Captive woman in ogre's house helps hero. Ector ch. 5. Cf. Dehmer 81 ff.
G550. Rescue from ogre. HålfdBr 568-72 ch. 4-5; Sigb 220-27 ch. 40-42; Amb
124-26 ch. 23.
G551. Rescue from ogre by relative.
G551.4. One brother rescues another from ogre.
G551.4.1. One foster-brother rescues another from ogre. Cf. P273. OrmSt 526-31;
JarlmH 41-42 ch. 23.
G570. Ogre overawed. Cf. G610. VilhSj 13-22 ch. 7-10: in gambling.
G580. Ogre otherwise subdued.
G584. Ogrepolluting the wells driven away by shooting. HålfH V 7-10 (FAS II 28-29).
G600-699. OTHER OGRE MOTIFS
G610. Theft from ogre. Cf. D838.6; K337. EgÅsm X 12-13, cf. p. xxxiv n. (FAS
III 386): Polyfem-motif.
G614. Killing of ogre's cattle, sheep, etc. brings on ogre's anger. EgÅsm V 8 ff. (FAS
III 371 ff.), cf. Andrews in Modem Philology X 625; Saxo lib. VIII c. XIV 4-5 =
Herrm 586.