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1448 CREATION.
p. 557.] Our Court-poets have preserved here and there a
genuine feature of the folklore about giants : Tristan taking the
giant's Jiaiid with him (16195) is like Beowulf bringing away
Grendel's, Again, the old giant-father carrying the heroes up a
hill (Daniel in Bartsch xxviii.) occurs not only in Hero-legend,
but in Folktale, Mlillenh. p. 266. Then, the giants of the
Trutmunt in Goldemar carry long poles, Hpt's Ztschr. 6, 521 ;
Runze swings a tree over his shoulder, Wolfd. 510 ; one giant is
named Boumgarte 493, 3. Asperian is styled the giants' spileman,
Eoth. 2161. In Lancelot 17247 seq. are noticed the
giants' ogen verTceren, tanden criselen, lioft qnelcen. A giant couple
in Ecke 7 (Hagen 5, 8) bear the names vro Eilte and her Grime,
conf. Grimr and Hildr, Vilk. saga c. 16. Note the giants'
names in Dietr. drach., Glockenhoz, Fidehistoz, Rilmedeniualt,
Schelledenwalt, Bltterhuch, Bitterhriit, Hohermuot, Klingelholt ; a
Grandengrus, Grandgriis 118'*. 126'' looks Romance, like Grandgosier
(great gullet) in Gargantua. Wolfes-mage (-maw) reminds
of the manservant Wolves-darm (-gut) in Helbl, 1, 372, and of
the Ssk. Urkodara (wolf's belly), Hitzig 308. Norse names
Ruth i Shut, Rolf i Topp, Hand i Handol, Elling, Staff, Dyb. '45,
97-9 (see p. 557). The connexion between giants and gods has
been pointed out, Suppl. to p. 531.
CHAPTER XIX.
CREATION.
p. 558 n.] Conf. Idnent werden (p. 746 n.) ; zekein, Wernh. v.
Niederrh. 11, 18. Schelling takes chaos to be the Roman
Jawws = hianus, after Festus sub v. chaos. The material sense
is also found in the expressions * ingunnen werden,' secari, N.
Arist. 95; ' siti ingunnen' cloven, Diemer 97, 26; M. Neth.
ontginnen, secare, Fergut 3461. 3565; conf. Hpt's Ztschr. 8,
18—20.
p. 559.] For the notion of creating, the AS. has the word
frumsceaft, prima creatio : God h frumsceafta fred, Csedm, 195,9.
The Gothic renders Kriaa by gashifts. On our schopfen, bilden,
bilde giezen, see p. 23 : waere ich nie gehildet, had I never been
shapen, Tit. 3283. Creature in the Bible is in OHG. hant-tat,