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Ellert and Brammert

giant from Dutch folklore

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2023
Entity authorityQ3407003 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ellert and Brammert are legendary giants from Dutch folklore who supposedly robbed travellers in Drenthe, Netherlands.

The Ellert en Brammert museum is named after them.

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“Ellert and Brammert” enters the record as giant from Dutch folklore. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ellert, Brammert and giant can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ellert, Brammert and giant.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ellert and Brammert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.