Brobdingnag
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Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel ''Gulliver's Travels.'' The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course. As a result, he becomes separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, in 1727, Gulliver laments that the publisher misspelled the land's name, which Gulliver asserts is actually called Brobdingrag.
Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Brobdingnag
- Fictional location.alt_name
- Brobdingrag
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- Brobdingnag map.jpg
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- Map of Brobdingnag (original map, Pt II, ''Gulliver's Travels'')
- Fictional location.series
- Gulliver's Travels
- Fictional location.creator
- Jonathan Swift
- Fictional location.genre
- Satire
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- Motto
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- Anthem
- Fictional location.locations
- Lorbrulgrud (capital)
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- Language(s)
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- Brobdingnagians
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- Monarchy
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- Currency
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Wikidata facts
- Continent
- North America
- Creator
- Jonathan Swift
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- time of discovery or invention
- 1703-00-00
- Commons category
- Brobdingnag
- first appearance
- Gulliver's Travels
- present in work
- Gulliver's Travels
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Location
- Scale
- Geography
- People, flora and fauna
- History and government
- Culture
- Symbolism
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel ''Gulliver's Travels.'' The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course. As a result, he becomes separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, in 1727, Gulliver laments that the publisher misspelled the land's name, which Gulliver asserts is actually called Brobdingrag.
The adjective Brobdingnagian has come to describe anything of colossal size.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brobdingnag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.