Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
Ashbel Green Gulliver The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at Yale Law School is endowed in his name. Gulliver was a Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations. Ashbel Green Gulliver Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897, Connecticut - July 3, 1974, Hanover, New Hampshire) was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Peyl"—from ashpail. Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1919, where he was Secretary of the Elizabethan Club and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. Gulliver graduated with an LL.B.