The leading personage of our first story, Knoes (_Tecknigar og
Toner ur skanska allmogenslif_, Lund, 1889, p. 14. From
Gudmundstorp, Froste Harad) is one of those heroes of gigantic
build, beloved of the North, who even when he eats,
accomplishes deeds such as the old Norsemen told of their god
Thor: the motive of the goblet with which the hero slays the
giant, has been used in the _Hymiskvida_. (Comp. with v. d.
Leyen, _Maerchen in den Goettsagen der Edda_, p. 40.)