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Koljo
Also known as: Koljatti, Kolio, Koljumi
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Finnish giant surviving in place-names: possibly a word for death before he was a giant.
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A giant who survives mostly as place-names, and a scholarly argument about whether he was ever a giant at all.
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Sources
- Juha Ruohonen, "Giant, Devil or Death? The Finnish Koljo in Mythology, Toponyms, Folklore and Archaeology"
- Finnish land register of Savo, 1560s