Gog and Magog, names that occur in the Bible of foes of Israel, and designative in the Apocalypse of enemies of the kingdom of God, as also of a Scythian tribe N. of the Caucasus. The names are applied likewise to two giants, survivors of a race found in Britain by Brute of Troy, effigies of whom stood at the Guildhall Gate, symbolic defenders of the city.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Goetz von Berlichingen * Gogol, Nicolai Vasilievitch