Motif
giant with skull harder than stone
giant_with_skull_harder_than_stone
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda HYMISKVITHA / THE LAY OF HYMIR / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 6109-6174 confidence: medium
The loved one is Hymir’s wife and Tyr’s mother. The note says a giant’s skull harder than stone is characteristic of later Norse folk-stories and mentions a mythical-saga giant named Hard-Skull.
The note says the idea that a giant’s skull is harder than stone is characteristic of later Norse folk-stories and mentions a saga giant named Hard-Skull.
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