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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 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 ...
Gigantism (Greek: γίγας, gígas, "giant", plural γίγαντες, gígantes), also known as giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average. In humans, this condition is caused by over-production of growth hormone in childhood.
The Giant, an 1871 novel by William Sewell, edited by Elizabeth Missing Sewell; The Giants, a 1905 novel by Cora Baggerly Older; The Giant, a 1951 novel by Frederick Manfred; Giant, a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber; The Giant, a 1954 children's novel by William Pène du Bois; The Giants (French: Les Géants), a 1973 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio
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).
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 ...
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants", and warns that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". [13] Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l (נ־פ־ל) "fall".
Their name is derived from an Old English word for "giant". The Ents appear in The Lord of the Rings as ancient shepherds of the forest and allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth during the War of the Ring. The Ent who figures most prominently in the book is Treebeard, who is called the oldest creature in Middle-earth. At that time, there ...