[1-2] ertu langleit … ok lætr róa nefit ‘you are long-faced … and you let your nose row’: A long, snout-like nose and large, hanging lips are mentioned as characteristics of giants in several fornaldarsögur, e.g. in the description of Geirríðr Gandvíkrekkja ‘woman of Gandvíkr’, a figure descended from giants, in GrL (FSGJ 2, 191; see the examples mentioned by Schulz 2004, 152-3).
References
- Bibliography
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Schulz, Katja. 2004. Riesen: Von Wissenshütern und Wildnisbewohnern in Edda und Saga. Skandinavistische Arbeiten 20. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gríms saga loðinkinna’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 288. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=76> (accessed 25 April 2024)