The Bipolar Giant, A Living Legend! – First Part

A legend by Guillaume Beaulieu

In «A Few Acres of Snow» of the North, a giant pushes his rock. A dense mass comprised of rock and ice, pushed by a 1000 tones of muscle and sheer willpower. The plan is clear: clear the earth of this cold white facade to create a livable environment. Even if it takes 2000 years. With the speed of an aging tortoise, he gains ground and the sun soon joins in on the effort, until the glacier begins to evaporate and eventually fades into nothing. Small fresh creeks of water gently snake their way through the ice and begin to touch the ground, pulverizing stones into a sandy greyish-brown clay. The thick skinned giant barely has time to put on his rain boots and wipe off his forehead, that he is quickly flooded to the waste in muddy waters. So much so that it is said «that God has never provided a nation with such a great gift of clay».

From the drowning of giants which is greatly mentioned by the Scandinavians, our imposing character is young, big and strong, but often alone. Cast onto this path by his father, who lives more to the south, he goes, without a doubt that his work will not only strip naked the terrain in an immodest way, but he will change it considerably. His clubfeet are so heavy that the earth’s crust crumbles beneath their weight. The glacier scraps so profoundly into the terrain that it shreds through mountains. Water is so massive and powerful that it doesn’t only completely blanket the landscape up to the giants waist, but it has also left behind at the very bottom of it’s waters, rich treasures of filtered eskers that will make 3/4 of the worlds populations envious.