Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Gogmagog (also Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot and Gogmagoc) was a legendary giant in English folklore. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (\"The History of The Kings of Britain\", 12th century), he was a giant inhabitant of Albion, thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus (a companion of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion.The name \"Gogmagog\" is often connected to the biblical characters Gog and Magog; however Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd (itself a translation of Monmouth's \"Historia Regum Britanniae\") argued that it was a corruption of Gawr Madoc (Madoc the Great)."@en }
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- Gogmagog_(giant) abstract "Gogmagog (also Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot and Gogmagoc) was a legendary giant in English folklore. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (\"The History of The Kings of Britain\", 12th century), he was a giant inhabitant of Albion, thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus (a companion of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion.The name \"Gogmagog\" is often connected to the biblical characters Gog and Magog; however Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd (itself a translation of Monmouth's \"Historia Regum Britanniae\") argued that it was a corruption of Gawr Madoc (Madoc the Great).".