Colbrand
“the giant,”
KING JOHN, i. 1. 225
;
“nor Colbrand.”
HENRY VIII., v. 4. 20.
“A Danish giant, whom Guy of Warwick discomfited in the
presence of King Athelstan. The combat is very pompously described by Drayton in his
Polyolbion [Song the Twelfth]”
(JOHNSON)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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