- Look up
ettin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ettin is an
English word
descended from Old English: eoten,
referring to a type of
being in Germanic...
- The Red
Ettin or The Red Etin is a
fairy tale
collected by
Joseph Jacobs. It was
included by
Andrew Lang in The Blue
Fairy Book. Two
widows lived in a...
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makes a
relation between the two
words likely. The
words are
cognate with
ettin, an
archaic word for a type of being. Old
Norse risi and Old High German...
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mother (egg-layer) is, and it is well
suited for Grendels. The
Ettin Desert is
where the
Ettin mother is; it is a dry,
harsh environment for all creatures...
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about attitures towards gender roles in the real world".: 34
Ettercap Ettin Fish,
giant Giant Catfish,
Giant Gar and
Giant Pike Frog Giant,
killer and...
- In the
Dungeons &
Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the term
monster refers to a
variety of creatures, some
adapted from
folklore and
legends and others...
- Thor's role in
fighting such beings. In connection, the lack of
trolls and
ettins in
modern Scandinavia is
explained as a
result of the "accuracy and efficiency...
- even
giants such as
those ****ociated with Cobb's
Causeway (also
known as "
ettins", "yetuns" or "yotuns" in
Northumberland and "Etenes", "Yttins" or "Ytenes"...
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generally succeeds in
tasks after his
older brothers have failed, as in The Red
Ettin, or all
three are set to
tasks and he is the only one to succeed, as in...
- English-speaking
South and East Asia) -eddine (particularly in French-speaking areas) -
ettin (particularly in
Turkish names) -od-din (particularly in
Persian names)...