Round 1: Tossup 19

In the Mabinogion (“mah-bih-NOG-yon”), one of these beings challenges Culhwch (“KILL-hookh”) to retrieve a comb and scissors from the boar Twrch Trwyth (“toork truh-ith”) in order to let him marry his daughter Olwen. In the Kalevala, Väinämöinen (“VYE-na-moy-nen”) obtains the last three words of a spell from the stomach (-5[1])of one of these beings, Antero Vipunen. The severed head of one of these beings is buried facing France to protect Britain from invasion. Finn MacCool creates a “causeway” named after (10[1])these (10[1])beings. (10[5])In Norse myth, Ymir (“EE-meer”) is the first of the “frost” (10[1])variety of these beings who live in Jotunheim (10[1])(“YO-tun-hime”). For 10 points, name these large beings, one of which yells “fee, fi, fo, fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk. ■END■

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