Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Epigraph
- Editorial Note
- I Ethics and Medievalism: Some Perspective(s)
- II Interpretations
- What if the Giants Returned to Albion for Vengeance? Crusade and the Mythic Other in the Knights of the Nine Expansion to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- The Dark Ages of the Mind: Eugenics, Amnesia, and Historiography in Dan Brown's Inferno
- Plastic Pagans: Viking Human Sacrifice in Film and Television
- Meat Puzzles: Beowulf and Horror Film
- Words, Swords, and Truth: Competing Visions of Heroism in Beowulf on Screen
- Socialism and Translation: The Folks of William Morris's Beowulf
- “We Wol Sleen this False Traytor Deeth”: The Search for Immortality in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale and J. K. Rowling's The Deathly Hallows
- Intention or Accident? Charles Alfred Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain
- Contributors
- Previously published volumes
What if the Giants Returned to Albion for Vengeance? Crusade and the Mythic Other in the Knights of the Nine Expansion to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
from II - Interpretations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Epigraph
- Editorial Note
- I Ethics and Medievalism: Some Perspective(s)
- II Interpretations
- What if the Giants Returned to Albion for Vengeance? Crusade and the Mythic Other in the Knights of the Nine Expansion to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- The Dark Ages of the Mind: Eugenics, Amnesia, and Historiography in Dan Brown's Inferno
- Plastic Pagans: Viking Human Sacrifice in Film and Television
- Meat Puzzles: Beowulf and Horror Film
- Words, Swords, and Truth: Competing Visions of Heroism in Beowulf on Screen
- Socialism and Translation: The Folks of William Morris's Beowulf
- “We Wol Sleen this False Traytor Deeth”: The Search for Immortality in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale and J. K. Rowling's The Deathly Hallows
- Intention or Accident? Charles Alfred Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain
- Contributors
- Previously published volumes
Summary
The island was at that time called Albion; it had no inhabitants save for a few giants. The choice position of this pleasant land, its numerous rivers, good for fishing, and its woods led Brutus and his companions to want to settle there. After exploring its various territories and driving off to mountain caves any giants they came upon, they portioned out the land, at their leader's invitation, and began to till the fields and build homes so that, in a short time, the country appeared to have been occupied for many years. They called the land Britain and its people Britons, after Brutus himself. He wanted to be remembered for ever for giving them his name. For this reason the language of his people, previously known as Trojan or “crooked Greek”, was hence-forth called British. Corineus followed his leader's example by similarly calling the area of the kingdom allotted to him Corineia and his people Corineians, after himself. He could have had his pick of the provinces before any other settler, but preferred the region now called Cornwall, either after Britain's horn or through a corruption of the name Corineia. He loved to fight giants, and there were more of them to be found there than in any of the districts divided amongst his companions. One of these Cornish giants was a monster called Goemagog, twelve cubits tall and so strong that he could loosen and uproot an oak tree as if it were a twig of hazel.
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- Studies in Medievalism XXIIIEthics and Medievalism, pp. 69 - 80Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014