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, Väinämöinen (“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. Finn MacCool creates (10[2])a “causeway” (-5[1])named after (10[1])these (10[1])beings. (10[2])In Norse myth, Ymir (“EE-meer”) is the first of the “frost” (10[1])variety 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■

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