The Poetic Edda on Giants
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attestation: Giants were generally assumed to be stupid in Norse tradition
"Giants were generally assumed to be stupid"
attestation: The idea that a giant's skull is harder than stone is characteristic of later Norse folk-stories
"The idea that a giant's skull is harder than stone or anything else is characteristic of the later Norse folk-stories, and in one of the so-called "mythical sagas" we find a giant actually named Hard-Skull"
attestation: Giants sometimes had two or more heads, though they were rarely described as a race in this way
"The many-headed: The giants, although rarely designated as a race in this way, sometimes had two or more heads"
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- attestation: Giantesses customarily had wolves for steeds, so 'horse of the giantess' means wolf
"i.e., the wolf (because giantesses customarily had wolves for their steeds)"