1 C. J. S. Thompson, The Mystery and Lore of Monsters (New York: University Books, 1968), pp. 160-161.
2 Edward J. Wood, Giants and Dwarfs (London: Richard Bentley, Her Majesty's Publisher, 1868), p. 219.
3 Thompson, The Mystery and Lore of Monsters, p. 183
4 Polly Jae Lee, Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus (New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1970), p. 106; and Henry Wysham Lanier, A Book of Giants (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1922), p. 307.
5 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 204-205.
6 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, p. 140.
7 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, p. 159.
8 Dio Cassius, 62.2.2-4.
9 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 219.
10 The Book of Lists (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1977), p. 309.
11 No Reference cited
12 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 157-165.
13 Use of the Hunterian Museum is restricted to members and to students of the medical, nursing, and veterinary professions.
14 Will Durant, Caesar and Christ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944), pp. 174-175.
15 i.e., northern Italy and southern France.
16 Durant, Caesar and Christ, p. 175.
17 Caesar, Commentary, p.20.
18 "The following," Strabo adds, "is an indication of their size: I myself, in Rome, saw mere lads towering as much as half a foot above the tallest people in the city, although they were bandy-legged and presented no fair lines anywhere else in their figure. Their habits are in part like those of the Celti, but in part more simple and barbaric." The Geography of Strabo, 4.5.2.
19 Caesar, Commentary, 5.12.
20 Gerhard Herm, The Celts (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975), p. 213.
21 Tacitus, Annals, 14.31.
22 Tacitus, Agricola, 15-16.
23 Herm, The Celts, p. 213.
24 Dio Cassius, 62.2.2-4.
25 Tacitus, Annals, 14.32.
26 Tacitus, Agricola, 21.
27 And thus became known as the Celtiberians.
28 Pausanias, 1.35.
29 No Reference cited
30 "The tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed warriors described by classical writers," says Celtic prehistory professor Jan Filip, "were probably a ruling caste spread thinly over indigenous populations." The tribe's biggest men no doubt were chosen as warriors. The tallest, like King Teutobokh, stood to tremendous heights. But, by comparison, some were short. The skeleton of a warrior recently dug up near the Celt-founded city of Milan, for example, measured only six feet five inches. National Geographic, May 1977, pp. 600-601.
31 "The whole race," Strabo adds, "... is madly fond of war, high-spirited and quick to battle." Quoted by Frank Delaney, The Celts (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1986), p. 32.
32 Henri Hubert, The Greatness and Decline of the Celts (London: Bracken Books, 1992), pp. 66-67.
33 Ammianus Marcellinus, 15.12.1-2. Marcellinus was a Latin historian of Greek origin.
34 Although Alexander thought so, the Celts were not being sarcastic, for, like many ancient peoples, they believed that the sky once collapsed. For documentation, see Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision (New York: Macmillan Co., 1950), pp. 70, 89-90.
35 Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander (New York: Dorset Press, 1986), pp. 48-49.
36 Diodorus, 5.28, 31.
37 And so it is explained by the ancient rabbis. See The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 552.
38 Virgil, Mneid, p .658-660, emphasis mine.
39 Diodorus, 5.2
40 Caesar, Commentary, 6.16.
41 Diodorus, 5.31.
42 The Scots sprang from the Celts.
43 Henri Hubert, The Rise of the Celts (London: Bracken Books, 1992), p. 28.
44 Diodorus, 5.32. Athenaeus also states that the Celts were accustomed to sleep with two boys.
45 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 219.
46 Encyclopaedia Britannica, llth Edition, Vols. 11-12, p. 745.
47 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 126-127.
48 Lee, Giant: The Pictorial History, pp. 62-63.
49 Ibid., p. 143.
50 Henry, however, died in 1189, the year before the long delayed excavation finally got underway.
51 Norvill, Giants: The Vanished Race, pp. 109, 111.
52 The legendary stories portray Arthur both as a giant and a conqueror of giants.
53 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1967 ed., s.v. "Glastonbury."
54 Norvill, Giants: The Vanished Race, p. 112.
55 Ibid., p. 112.
56 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1967 ed., s.v. "Glastonbury."
57 When Harald came to the throne of Norway, he introduced an autocratic rule over its unruly, independent Viking noblemen, some of whom lost their heads to his "thin-lipped axe." This wielding of absolute power earned the new king the nickname Hardraada, which means ruthless.
58 By some accounts, Harald measured three ells tall (or just over eleven feet), but Harold Godwinson's statement just before the Stamford Bridge battle would seem to place his height somewhere between seven and eight feet.
59 Howard LaFay, The Vikings (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1972), p. 189.
60 Ibid., pp. 189-190.
61 Norvill, Giants: The Vanished Race, p. 104.
62 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 92.
63 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, pp. 153-155.
64 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 172-173.
65 Phyllis R. Blakeley, Two Remarkable Giants (Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1970), p. 35.
66 Vol. 2, p. 1046.
67 Blakeley, Two Remarkable Giants, p. 35.
68 Ibid.
69 Nova Scotia is the Latin name for New Scotland.28 Blakeley, Two Remarkable Giants, p. 31.
70 Ibid., pp. 28-29.
71 Which required additional ballast forward to balance his great weight.
72 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 201-203.
73 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, p. 133.
74 Robert Plot, Staffordshire, 1686.
75 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, pp. 141-142.
76 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 224.
77lbid., pp. 208-209.
78 lbid., pp. 178-179.
79 lbid., p. 175.
80 Ibid.
81 Ibid, pp. 184-185. However, the following inscription was placed upon the brass-plate of O'Brien's coffin: "Patrick Cotter O'Brien, of Kinsale, Ireland, whose stature was 8 feet 1 inch. Died Sep. 18, 1806, aged 46 years."
82 Ibid., p. 169.
83 Ibid., p. 182
84 Ibid., p. 177.
85 Plot, Staffordshire, 1686.
86 Ibid., pp. 98-103.
87 Thompson, Mystery and Lore of Monsters, pp. 149-150.
88 Quoted by Sarah Teale in Giants (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979), p.64.
89 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 206.
90 Ibid., p. 214.
91 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, pp. 195-196.
92 Wood, Giants and Dwarfs, p. 33.