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A British giant, son of Albion, slain by Canuʹtus, one of the companions of Brute.
“Those three monstrous stones …
Which that huge son of hideous Albion,
Great Godmer, threw in fierce contentiön
At bold Canutus: but of him was slain.”
Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 10.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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