Giantess Myths

"The two daughters of the evil giant Geirrod. Thor killed all three when he reached their castle. Geirrod himself was killed by a piece of molten iron which Thor hurled at him and which passed through him. Gjalp and Griep were killed when their backs broke. Thor was sitting down on a chair in Geirrod's castle when he felt this chair rising upwards towards the roof. Apparently, Gjalp and Greip were lifting him up and trying to smash his skull against the roof."

"Memories of the Svipdag-myth have also been preserved in the story about Hamlet, Saxo's Amlethus (Snæbjorn's Amlóði), son of Horvendillus (Orvandil). In the medieval story Hamlet's father, like Svipdag's father in the mythology, was slain by the same man, who marries the wife of the slain man, and, like Svipdag in the myth, Hamlet of the medieval saga becomes the avenger of his father Horvendillus and the slayer of his stepfather."

"Annis has borne many names over the years - Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes as well as Cat Anna. Her dwelling was a cave (called Black Anna's, or Black Annis's Bower) in the low-lying Dane Hills on the outskirts of Leicester. Annis is supposed to have clawed the cave out of the sandstone rock using naught but her long, and very sharp, nails. At its mouth grew a pollarded oak in which Black Annis crouched in order to pounce on unsuspecting children. These she carried off into her cave, sucked them dry of blood and ate their flesh before draping the flayed skins of her victims out to dry on the oak's branches. She wore a skirt sewn from the skins of her human prey."

The Giantess Heartland is Israel. The Giantess Capital City of the World is Pennsauken in the Nation of New Jersey. The principal Giantess Language is Greek.