(urth) The Ship

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Fri Feb 3 19:40:17 PST 2006


On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Andy Robertson wrote:

> <-----------
>
>  From "The Norsemen" by H.A. Guerber
>
> The Giants' Ship
>
> A North Frisian tradition relates that the giants possessed a  
> colossal ship,
> called Mannigfual, which constantly cruised about in the Atlantic  
> Ocean.
> Such was the size of this vessel that the captain was said to  
> patrol the
> deck on horseback, while the rigging was so extensive and the masts  
> so high
> that the sailors who went up as youths came down as gray-haired  
> men, having
> rested and refreshed themselves in rooms fashioned and provisioned  
> for that
> purpose in the hugh blocks and pulleys.
>
>  ------->
>
>
> A little bit of lore that may possibly have conributed to UOTNS?????


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