Gogmagog (also Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot and Gogmagoc) was a legendary giant in the Matter of Britain. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia...
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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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Fomorians - Irish mythology Gigantes - Greek mythology Gog - Hebrew Bible Gogmagog - Matter of Britain Goliath - Book of Samuel Humbaba - Sumerian religion...
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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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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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Corineus (section Gogmagog's Leap)
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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Hill figure (section Cerne Abbas Giant)
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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Jack and the Beanstalk (redirect from Jack And The Giant)
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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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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Gog Magog Hills (redirect from Gogmagog Hill)
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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Albion (section The giants of Albion)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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21 October – Paul Di'Anno, 66, English heavy metal singer (Iron Maiden, Gogmagog). (death announced on this date) 22 October Graham Blyth, 76, English audio...
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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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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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age of 60. October 21 – Paul Di'Anno, former vocalist of Iron Maiden and Gogmagog, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 66. October 27 – Hayden Lamb...
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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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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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tired, he skinned and burned the remaining soldiers. He fought and killed a giant using an uprooted tree stripped of bark and branches. For this reason, he...
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