Gogmagog
Also known as: Goemagot, Gog and Magog
Basic account
British giant who wrestled Corineus and gave his name to London's guardians.
Account
Gogmagog is the last giant of Albion, thrown off a Cornish cliff by the Trojan Corineus in a wrestling match. Two carved effigies of him and his conqueror have stood in the Guildhall of London for centuries.
Motifs
- The people who came before
- Defeated by cunning
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What is disputed
Whether Geoffrey drew on genuine Welsh or Cornish tradition or invented the episode is a long-running argument.
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Sources
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae I.16 (c. 1136)
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Chain of custody
Gogmagog was the last giant of Albion, thrown from the cliffs at Plymouth by Corineus after losing a wrestling match.
The wrestling match and the fall from a cliff are attested in a twelfth-century Latin history, but that text puts the fight at the shore where Brutus landed rather than at Plymouth, and the Plymouth address is supplied by later documents.
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