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
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver him as a threatening giant. The Lilliputians are afraid of Gulliver and tie him down with stakes to the beach, but he eases their fears by performing several acts of kindness. An old quarrel between Lilliput and neighboring Blefuscu is revived, and Gulliver lends a hand by towing Blefuscu's warships far out to sea. Lilliput's Emperor (Basil Sydney) then views the giant as a threat to his throne after Gulliver is critical of the reasons for the war. Gulliver escapes in a boat he had previously built when the Emperor orders his execution. He makes his way to a large