Motif
Giants create or embody mountains and waterways
giants_create_or_embody_mountains_and_waterways
A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment 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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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS; lines 8535-8655 confidence: high
German legends attribute uneven ground to giant footsteps and streams to giantess tears; giants personify mountains, move in darkness or fog, and are petrified by sunlight.
Giant footprints make valleys, giantess tears make streams, mountain names derive from giants, and avalanches are explained as giants shaking off ice.
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