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The Great Mare (la Grand Mare, grant jument or grand'jument in French) was a gigantic mare that served as a mount for giants in several Renaissance works. Stemming from medieval traditions inspired by Celtic mythology, she first appeared in The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, written in 1532, in which Merlin created her from bones atop a mountain.

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  • La Grand Jument (ou grant jument, grand'jument) est une jument de taille gigantesque qui sert de monture aux géants dans plusieurs œuvres de la Renaissance. Issue de traditions médiévales, elles-mêmes inspirées de la mythologie celtique, elle apparaît dans Les grandes et inestimables chroniques du grant et énorme géant Gargantua, rédigées en 1532, dans lesquelles Merlin la crée sur une montagne à partir d'ossements. Ces Chroniques inspirent François Rabelais, lequel reprend en grande partie ce récit et la jument comme monture de Gargantua dans La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel, publié cinq ans plus tard. Affublée d'une description parodique, la jument venue d'Afrique noie ses ennemis sous son urine et rase tous les arbres de la Beauce, transformant la région en plaine. Cet animal serait issu d'un dragon primitif modeleur du paysage ou de la monture de plusieurs dieux celtes. Il partage la même origine que le cheval Bayard, d'après Henri Dontenville et Claude Gaignebet. Des toponymes lui sont dédiés, sans qu'un lien avec les écrits de la Renaissance ne soit forcément connu. (fr)
  • The Great Mare (la Grand Mare, grant jument or grand'jument in French) was a gigantic mare that served as a mount for giants in several Renaissance works. Stemming from medieval traditions inspired by Celtic mythology, she first appeared in The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, written in 1532, in which Merlin created her from bones atop a mountain. Rabelais was inspired by these Chronicles and proceeded build on upon the given descriptions, including in his writings that the mare was Gargantua's mount in The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel, which was published five years later. It was saddled up to be a parody, examples of this being the instances when the mare drowned her enemies with her urine and leveled all of the trees of Beauce, transforming the region into a plain. This animal seemingly originated from a primeval dragon modeler or from the mountain of Celtic Gods. According to Henri Dontenville and Claude Gaignebet, the mount shares the same origin as Bayard's horse. There are also toponymes dedicated to her, without direct connections to Renaissance writings. (en)
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  • Grant Jument, Grand'jument (en)
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  • Traditional French oral stories (en)
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  • The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua (en)
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  • Folklore, Horse (en)
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  • Gigantic white mare (en)
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  • France (en)
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  • The Great Mare (la Grand Mare, grant jument or grand'jument in French) was a gigantic mare that served as a mount for giants in several Renaissance works. Stemming from medieval traditions inspired by Celtic mythology, she first appeared in The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, written in 1532, in which Merlin created her from bones atop a mountain. (en)
  • La Grand Jument (ou grant jument, grand'jument) est une jument de taille gigantesque qui sert de monture aux géants dans plusieurs œuvres de la Renaissance. Issue de traditions médiévales, elles-mêmes inspirées de la mythologie celtique, elle apparaît dans Les grandes et inestimables chroniques du grant et énorme géant Gargantua, rédigées en 1532, dans lesquelles Merlin la crée sur une montagne à partir d'ossements. (fr)
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  • Grand Jument (fr)
  • Grande Giumenta (it)
  • The Great Mare (en)
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