Chapter X: Giants, Mythical and Otherwise

The Giant's Dance, Stonehenge. The Ramayana and giants of Ceylon. The
wild men of Hanno, the Carthaginian. Gorillas. The giants of
Lancashire, Shropshire, Cornwall, Ireland, and India compared.
Gogmagog and Corineus. The Cyclops. Patagonian and other modern
giants. Giants and monsters according to Pliny. Shakspere's
monsters. The Amorites. The giants Og and Sihon. Remains of the
ancient cities of Bashan. Sir Jno. Mandeville's Indian giants. Red
Indian traditions of giants and gigantic pachyderms. Discoveries of
huge fossil bones. Aryan Rakshasas or Atrins (devourers). Giants
and devils. Milton's fallen angels. The trolls and giants of
Scandinavia. Dethroned deities. The AEsir gods. Their overthrow by
the light of the Christian dispensation. Nikarr, an appellation of
Odin, the Old Nick of the present day. Giants degraded forms of
original Aryan personifications of the forces of nature. Ancient
and modern examples. Allegory. Lord Bacon's opinion. Passage into
the heroes of romance. The King Arthur legends. The Anglo-Saxon
poem, Beowulf. The monster Grendel of Hartlepool. The Arthur legend
of Tarquin and Sir Lancelot, at Manchester. The Round table.
Anachronisms in romance literature. The "Sangreal." Urien, the
Arthur of the North of England. The Welsh bards, Taliesin and
Llywarch Hen or the Old. Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of
Newbury. Walter Map. Giants' coits and erratic boulders. Lancashire
and Cheshire giants, near Stockport. Chivalry and the plundering
Barons of the middle ages. Mythical Dwarfs. Tom Thumb. Connection
of Druidical with Brahminical superstition. Page 197