Round 2: 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, (-5[1])Väinämöinen (“VYE-na-moy-nen”) obtains the last three words of a spell from the stomach of one of these beings, (-5[1])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 (10[1])after these (10[2])beings. (10[1])In Norse myth, Ymir (“EE-meer”) is the first of the “frost” variety of these beings who live in Jotunheim (“YO-tun-hime”). For 10 points, name these large beings, one of which yells “fee, (10[1])fi, fo, fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk. ■END■

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