Goëmot

or Goëmagot , a British giant, twelve cubits high, and of such prodigious strength that he could pull up a full-grown oak at one tug. Same as Gogmagog ( q.v. ). On a certain day, when Brutus was holding a solemn festival to the gods... this giant, with twenty more of his companions, came in upon the Britons, among whom he made a dreadful slaughter; but the Britons at last... killed them every one but Goëmagot... him Brutus preserved alive, out of a desire to see a combat between the giant and Corineus, who took delight in such encounters.... Corineus carried him to the top of a high rock, and to ed him into the sea.—Geoffrey, British History , i. 16 (1142). Goëmagot’s Leap , or “Lam Goemagot,” now called Haw, near Plymouth; the place where the giant fell when Corin’eus (3 syl. ) to ed him down the craggy rocks, by which he was mangled to pieces.—Geoffrey, British History , i. 16 (1142). ⁂ Southey calls the word Lan-gœ-mā-gog . (See Gogmagog ).