Round 6: 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 (10[1])(“VYE-na-moy-nen”) obtains the last three words of a spell from the stomach of one of these beings, Antero Vipunen. The severed head of one of these beings is buried facing France to protect Britain from invasion. (-5[1])Finn MacCool (-5[1])creates a “causeway” named after these beings. (10[4])In Norse myth, (10[1])Ymir (10[1])(“EE-meer”) is (10[1])the first of the “frost” variety (10[2])of these beings who live in Jotunheim (“YO-tun-hime”). For 10 points, name these large beings, one of which yells “fee, fi, fo, fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk. ■END■ (10[1])

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