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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Godmer.
 
A British giant, son of Albion, slain by Canu’tus, one of the companions of Brute.   1
       
“Those three monstrous stones …
       
Which that huge son of hideous Albion,
Great Godmer, threw in fierce contentiön
At bold Canutus: but of him was slain.”
       
Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 10.
 


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