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Ispolini
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Bulgaria's giants were God's second attempt at people. We are the third.
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God made three attempts at people, and the dwarves were too small to survive. The ispolini were the correction.
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Sources
- Стойнев, Попов, Василева and Попов, "Исполини", Българска митология: Енциклопедичен речник, 2006
- Атанас Илиев, Български предания за исполини, наречени елини, жидови и латини, Сборник за народни умотворения 3, 1890
- Макс Фасмер, "исполин", Этимологический словарь русского языка, 1964 to 1973, for the Spali derivation and for Meillet's objection
- Jordanes and Pliny the Elder as cited there