| From: | Matthew Wilshin m.wilshin@******.net |
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| Subject: | British Giants |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:40:07 +0100 |
>I don't know "the whole mess of things in Europe", but I would say
>that it wasn't impossible. IMO, all it would take is certain
>percentage of Norse heritage (i.e. one of his grandparents was
>Norse). As for the "power" held by the noble born, I would think that
>there is a large number of nobles who don't hold any real power except
>maybe locally (their home town or region).
I've read various British legends/fairy tales about giants set in various
parts of the UK, generally set in Scotland, Ireland, or Cornwall (ie. the
celtic or gaelic bits). So a British giant shouldn't be completely unlikely,
the player could say the estate of the noble covered the area where one of
the legends orginated.
A couple of places with giant legends that I can think of are St. Michaels
Mount in Cornwall and the area around the Giants Causeway in
Scotland/Ireland (I think the causeway stretches right across the Irish
Sea).
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