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
Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) to speak to them when they get into a thinking state. Gulliver later learns the tricks of these men and they share their knowledge of math and astronomy among other things. After getting ready for the "End of the World Ball," Gulliver participates in a battle in which the kingdom of the prince's mother Empress Munodi (Geraldine Chaplin) is attacked. Gulliver falls from the hole (which is under a magnet that sustains the island above the ground) into a bed under the palace. He then converses with Empress Munodi of the place called "the Academy," where he questions several English