Gogmagog
Gogmagog was a giant in Anglo-Saxon mythology . It was three and a half meters tall and so strong that it could uproot whole oak trees like hazelnut branches. Etymologically, the biblical story of Gog and Magog is taken up, but the name could possibly go back to Gawr Madoc (Gawr = giant).
Geoffrey of Monmouth tells in the Historia Regum Britanniae , d. H. in the history of the kings of Britain around 1136, how the island of Britain was settled by Trojan refugees under Brutus . Corineus , one of his followers, became the ruler of Cornwall , where there were particularly many giants .
When Gogmagog and twenty other giants attacked Brutus during a service, he had them killed except for Gogmagog, who was to wrestle with Corineus for his entertainment. Gogmagog broke three of Corineus' ribs, but the latter dragged him to the coast and threw him from the cliffs into the sea, where he shattered.
Individual evidence
- ^ Geoffrey of Monmouth. pp. 72-73. Quoted in Bill Cooper: After the Flood
- ↑ Gog and Magog
- ↑ Corineus and Gogmagog ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in English.
