Also Wade and his wife, who built the castles at Mulgrave and Pickering by tossing a hammer between the two; the Wrekin giant from Wales who hated the people of Shrewsbury and wished to flood the town, but couldn’t find it; and the Alphin and Alderman giants who fought over a beautiful water nymph and created large hills in the peaks by throwing great boulders at each other, plus many more. Of course many of us have seen the Cerne Abbas giant, whose colossal outline can still be viewed etched into the hillside in Dorset, holding aloft his club; but did giants really exist? Local writer Daniel Codd tells of the skeleton of a ‘true giant’ that was unearthed in 1931 under Haxey High Street in Lincolnshire – a 7-foot tall man, thought to have been a Roman soldier.1 Lincolnshire has its fair share of giant folklore; oftentimes heroes whose epic deeds have elevated them to the status of giant. There is a legend of a heroic fisherman, named Grim, after whom the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby is supposedly named.
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