The Giant is a folk song written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers. The song was performed on his album Fogarty's Cove as well as on his live album Home in Halifax. The song is about Fionn mac Cumhaill, the hunter-warrior of gaelic mythology. This mythology was transported across the Atlantic with the Scots who came to live in Cape Breton. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter. ... Fogartys Cove is a 1976 (see 1976 in music) folk music album by Stan Rogers. ... Fionn mac Cumhaill (pronounced /fuN mə ku:L/, /fiN mə ku:L/, /fu:n mə ku:l/ or /foun mə ku:l/ according to dialect)(earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, later Anglicised to Finn McCool) was a hunter-warrior of the Gaelic... The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of the Earths surface. ...