Giants and dwarfs.

  • Wood, Edward J.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Giants and dwarfs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They did subdue, who oft in battell stood ’Gainst them in field, untill by force of hand They were made subject unto Brute’s command. ****** Save certain giants, whom they did pursue, Which straight to caves in mountains did them get.” Brutus then divided the land between his followers and Corinseus, one portion being called Britain, and the other Cornwall, which latter he gave to Corinaeus “ For his service done, And for because from giants he it won.” On an occasion when Brutus was holding a fes- tival on the sea-coast of Cornwall, a band of giants made their appearance and disturbed the festivities. The Trojans, however, fought a desperate battle against the monsters, all of whom, except Geoma- got, or Gogmagog, they destroyed. The survivor was the hugest of all, he being twelve pubits in height, and able to pull up trees by their roots as weeds. He was reserved that Corinseus might match his strength against him in single combat.- The giant, however, in a wrestle broke three of Corinseus’s ribs, which injury so enraged him that he bore the giant to a high rock, and threw him headlong into the sea. The spot was afterwards known as Lam or Lan Goe- magot, or the Giant’s Leap. The separate names of Gog and Magog are comparatively modern, and were formed by breaking one name into two; and long after Brutus founded London they were applied to two huge figures which were introduced into that C> O city’s pageantry, and are now represented by large E
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