Eaten vs Eoten - What's the difference?
eaten | eoten |
A giant from Old English literature and mythology.
*1834 , "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
*:The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens , and the elves, and the orcs (eĆ³tenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
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