He was a big man and looked terrifying in his armour and facelessness because of the helmet and vizor.

How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?

Giant and dragon interchange as opponents of god or hero in folklore; in the gigantomachies we have evidence of their near-identity.

Same amount of total sialome proteins obtained from dissected SG (or extracts from the same number of dissected salivary glands) were analyzed by 12% SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions and either stained by coomasie blue, or transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (BioRad, Cat # 162–0112) according to standard protocols [ 35 ].