If there are any fans of C.S. Lewis out
there, here's a quizz:
Where does the OE word for 'giant',
eoten (Middle English eten,
et(t)in) occur in the Chronicles of Narnia?
Quite possibly it was Lewis's
Anglo-Saxonist friend J.R.R. Tolkien who
recommended the word to him. At any rate,
Tolkien himself made use of another nice OE term for 'giant',
ent, in his own fiction.
Piotr