The Giant Herdsman Directs the Quest

“‘Good morning,’ he said in French. ‘What are you doing here?’ ‘I’m trying to understand how Maing got its name?’ I replied, like him, getting straight to the point. ‘You need to go to strange Cassels,’ the giant herdsman directed me, oddly. ‘Where the Menapii tribe lived. You’ll find it on a hill about forty kilometres in that direction.‘”

Source: Journeying · Finding Manuland I

This encounter has an explicitly mythic quality — the “giant herdsman” on a mound directing the hero toward the Menapii tribal capital reads like an IE founding myth happening in real time.

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