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Literal meaning is "troll" or "giant". The thursar were giants living in Jotunheimar, on the fringes of Middle-Earth, in Old Norse cosmolo ...

...helped [[Ares]] by freeing him from a bronze jar when Ares was captured by giants. He also retrieved [[Io]] for Zeus by defeating the Argus giant. He had [[H ...

...; the second occurrence is succeeded by the invasion of [[Jötunn|Jötnar]] (giants) in the world of gods; after the last occurrence, the rise of a new and bet ...

* Calevanpojat — giants, never seen but existed because their works were evident ...

...nd ''Pantagruel'', a connected series of books. They tell the story of two giants; a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, writte ...