A giant's fury is so great that it takes twelve champions to control him, when the rage is on him.

The troll (like our Puss-in-Boots Ogre) can take any shape.
Monstrous apparitions are mentioned, a giant hand (like that in one story of Finn) searching for its prey among the inmates of a booth in the wilds.

But this Grendel-like arm is torn off by a giantess, Hardgrip, daughter of Wainhead and niece possibly of Hafle.
The voice heard at night prophesying is that of some god or monster, possibly Woden himself.
"Dwarves" .-- These Saxo calls Satyrs, and but rarely mentions.

The dwarf Miming, who lives in the desert, has a precious sword of sharpness (Mistletoe ?) that could even pierce skin-hard Balder, and a ring (Draupnir) that multiplied itself for its possessor.

He is trapped by the hero and robbed of his treasures.
FUNERAL RITES AND MAN'S FUTURE STATE.
"Barrow-burials" .-- The obsequies of great men (such as the classic funeral of "Beowulf's Lay", 3138-80) are much noticed by Saxo, and we might expect that he knew such a poem (one similar to Ynglingatal, but not it) which, like the Books of the Kings of Israel and Judah, recorded the deaths and burials, as well as the pedigrees and deeds, of the Danish kings.
The various stages of the "obsequy by fire" are noted; the byre sometimes formed out of a ship; the "sati"; the devoted bower-maidens choosing to die with their mistress, the dead man's beloved (cf.