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GIANTS.
his load, h is apron springs a leak, and the earth that drops out
becomes the nine hills near Rambin. He darns the hole, and
goes further. Arrived at Gustow, he bursts another hole, and
spills thirteen little hills ; he reaches the sea with the earth that
is left, and shoots it in, making Prosnitz Hook and the peninsula
of Drigge. But there still remains a narrow space between
Rugen and Pomerania, which so exasperates the giant that he
is struck with apoplexy and dies, and his dam has never been
completed (E. M. Arndt s Marchen 1, 156). Just the other way,
a giant girl of Pomerania wants to make a bridge to Riigen, so
that I can step across the bit of water without wetting my bits
of slippers/ She hurries down to the shore with an apronful of
sand ; but the apron had a hole in it, a part of her freight ran
out Mother side of Sagard, forming a little hill named Dubberworth.
Dear me ! mother will scold/ said the hiine maiden, but
kept her hand under, and ran all she could. Her mother looked
over the wood : Naughty child, what are you after ? come, and
you shall have the stick/ The daughter was so frightened she let
the apron slip out of her hands, the sand was all
spilt about, and
formed the barren hills by Litzow. 1 Near Vi in Kallasocken lies
a huge stone named Zechiel s stone after a giantess or merwoman.
She lived at Edha castle in Hogbysocken, and her sister near the
Skaggenas (shag-ness) in Smaland. They both wished to build
a bridge over the Sound; the Smaland giantess had brought
Skaggenas above a mile into the sea, and Zechiel had gathered
stones in her apron, when a man shot at her with his shafts, so
that she had to sit down exhausted on a rock, which still bears
the impress of her form. But she got up again, and went as far
as Pesnassocken, when Thor began to thunder (da hafver gogubben
begynt at aka) ; she was in such a fright that she fell dead,
scattering the load of stones out of her apron higgledy-piggledy
on the ground ; hence come the big masses of rock there of two
Her kindred had her buried by the side
or three men s height.
of these rocks
(Ahlqvist s Gland, 2, 98-9). These giants dread
of Thor is so great, that when they hear it thunder, they hide
in clefts of rocks and under trees : a hogbergsgubbe in Gothland,
1 Lothar s Volkssagen, Leipz. 1825, p. 65. Temme s Pomm. sagen, nos. 190-1 ;
see Barthold s Poniinern 1, 580, who spells Dobberwort. and explains it by the Pol.
wor (sack).