THE LIBRARY OF ROMANCE
A BOOK OF GIANTS
THE LIBRARY OF ROMANCE
A BOOK OF GIANTS
TALES OF VERY TALL MEN OF MYTH,
LEGEND, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE
BY
"And there we saw giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants:and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in theirsight."—Numbers: xiii, 33.
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Copyright, 1922
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Thanks are due to the Frederick A. Stokes Company for permission touse, in Part III, three tales from volumes published by them: ChapterXX, The Biter Bit, from "Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians," byVojislav M. Petrovic; Chapter XXI, The Peach's Son, from "Myths andLegends of Japan," by F. Hadland Davis; and Chapter XXIII, The StoneGiantess, from "The Myths of the North American Indians," by LewisSpence.
In a number of cases the text of the original romance or "history" hasbeen followed as closely as possible, to retain the flavor of the oldtales.
CONTENTS
| PART I. GIANTS OF THE MORNING OF THE WORLD | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | How Zeus Fought with Titans and Giants | 3 |
| II. | The Giant Who Shines in the Sky | 18 |
| III. | The Outwitting of Polyphemus | 46 |
| IV. | When Thor Went to Jotunheim | 68 |
| V. | The Giant Pyramid-Builder | 90 |
| VI. | The Fatal Pride of Vukub | 95 |
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