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The Yetnasteen - a standing stone in Rousay in Orkney, held in local folklore to be a giant or jötunn that has been turned to stone. Giants with names cognate to terms for jötnar are found in later Northern European folklore, such as the English ettin or yotun, thurse and hobthrust, Danish jætte, Swedish jätte and Finnish jätti.
The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle. [1] It is derived from the Gigantes ( Ancient Greek : Γίγαντες [ 2 ] ) of Greek mythology . Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed the modern perception of giants as dimwitted and violent ogres , sometimes said to eat humans, while other ...
Childe of Hale, English giant in Tudor England; Finnic mythologies; Giant animal (mythology) Giants (esotericism) Giant's Causeway; Jörmungandr, giant serpent in Norse mythology; Paleo-Balkan mythology; Processional giant; Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France; Proto-Indo-European mythology; Typhon, giant serpent in Greek mythology
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. [1] Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System . The term "gas giant" was originally synonymous with " giant planet ".
To the right of this comes a female stabbing her spear [115] at a fallen Giant (probably Porphyrion); [116] Athena fighting Eriktypos [117] and a second Giant; a male stepping over the fallen Astarias [118] to attack Biatas. [119] and another Giant; and Hermes against two Giants. Then follows a gap which probably contained Poseidon and finally ...
An unascribed lyric fragment (985 PMG) calls the Giant "Phlegraian Alkyoneus of Pallene, the eldest of the Gigantes [Giants]". [13] Claudian has Alcyoneus buried under the volcanic Mount Vesuvius [ 14 ] while Philostratus says that the bones of Alcyoneus were considered a "marvel" by the people living near Vesuvius, where it was said that many ...