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    Gogmagog (also Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot and Gogmagoc) was a legendary giant in Welsh and later English mythology. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's...
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  • Gogmagog may refer to: Gogmagog (band), a British supergroup Gogmagog (giant), a giant in British folklore Gog Magog Hills Gog and Magog This disambiguation...
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    Rose reports in Giants, Monsters, and Dragons that the tale of Jack the Giant Killer may be a development of the Corineus and Gogmagog legend. The motifs...
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    Fomorians - Irish mythology Gigantes - Greek mythology Gog - Hebrew Bible Gogmagog - Matter of Britain Goliath - Book of Samuel Humbaba - Sumerian religion...
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  • Ysbaddaden Bencawr Idris Gawr Cormoran Cymidei Cymeinfoll Gogmagog Maelor Gawr Welsh giants Am Fear Liath Mòr Bertram de Shotts Fachan Fionn mac Cumhaill...
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    suggested that Corineus, the medieval legend, wrestled a Cornish giant named Gogmagog at Plymouth Hoe. Belt wrestling Cornish wrestling "belt-and-jacket...
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    mace-wielding giant called Gogmagog, appears. Payn defends his men against the attacks of the giant with his shield and cross, then stabs Gogmagog with his...
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    Cormoran (category Jack the Giant Killer)
    associated with St. Michael's Mount, and is credited with defeating a giant named Gogmagog in Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential pseudohistory Historia Regum...
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    placed the "leape of Gogmagog" at Dover. Researcher Peter Bartrum suggests that the story may have been based on hill figures of two giants fighting carved...
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    the Giant Killer"). In "The Story of Jack Spriggins" the giant is named Gogmagog. The giant's catchphrase "Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman"...
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    phenomenon especially seen in England, where examples include the Cerne Abbas Giant, the Uffington White Horse, and the Long Man of Wilmington, as well as the...
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    only 24 giants left, due to inner strife. As with Geoffrey of Monmouth's version, Brutus's band subsequently overtake the land, defeating Gogmagog in the...
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    Hill — White Hill In English folklore and the Matter of Britain, Gogmagog was a giant, and according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th-century...
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    ISBN 978-0954965709 Tom and the Giant illustrated by Jago (Brave Tales Collection) May 2005 ISBN 978-0954965723 The Ballad of Gogmagog illustrated by Jago, Hope...
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    name Gogmagog, a legendary British giant. A later corrupted folk rendition in print altered the tradition around Gogmagog and Corineus with two giants Gog...
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    editions 1997, 1987). Meadows, Peter (February 2015). "Project Gallery: Gogmagog". Antiquity. 89 (343). Retrieved 9 May 2022. "Price, Simon., "The Gog Magog...
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  • Kirby. The character was based on the giants Gog and Magog, who would combine their bodies to become Gogmagog. The character was described in his debut...
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    his quest to win Olwen's hand in marriage and is the first to strike the giant Ysbaddaden with the poisoned spear meant for Culhwch. Bedwyr goes on to...
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  • stuck by his original ideas, and wrote a book aimed at a general audience, Gogmagog – The Buried Gods on the basis of them. It was published by Routledge and...
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    so that he can marry no one besides the beautiful Olwen, daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden. Though he has never seen her, Culhwch becomes infatuated with...
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    after him. They are harassed by the giants during a festival, but kill all of them but their leader, the largest giant Goemagot, who is saved for a wrestling...
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    the majority are supernatural, including giant cat-monsters, destructive divine boars, dragons, dogheads, giants, and witches. The second is that the pre-Galfridian...
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  • child", and later tells the story of how Corineus wrestled a Cornish giant, Gogmagog or Goemagot upon the cliff top known as Lamm Goemagot. Another early...
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    sergeant, had 8d. for cutting Gogmagog. —An audit book of 1514. Until the early 17th century large outline images of the giants Gog and Magog (or Goemagot...
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    defeated otherwise, due to their powers. Gwalchmei himself appears as a giant in Welsh folklore. The first known references to Gawain outside Wales began...
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  • MacGilleChaluim of Raasay by force, and to the Bishop of the Isles by heritage." Gogmagog. The Buried Gods, T C Lethbridge, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1957...
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    seeing a pantomime version of Jack and the Beanstalk, which used similar giants, consisting of "basically a bloke on stilts but dressed up to look about...
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    places the fight between Brutus' general Corineus, and the British giant Gogmagog "at Totttenes", while Cornish antiquary Richard Carew suggested that...
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  • only from a cryptic reference in a satirical poem by Juvenal, in which a giant turbot presented to the Roman emperor Domitian (81–96 AD) is said to be...
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    new wave of British heavy metal bands Kara, Scott (30 October 2008). "One giant Leppard". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 September 2011. Walker, Graham...
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