SHEM
Religious Mythology
Son of Noah
The Italian monk ANNIUS OF VITERBO (Giovanni Nanni, c.1432-1502) asserted the the biblical NOAH was a GIANT. He re-created a whole genealogy of GIANTS from NOAH and IAPETUS to justify the constructed line of decent through the GIANT DIS SAMOTHES to the ancestry of the French nobility of the period. Within this genealogy ANNIUS asserted that the sons of NOAH - SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH - who were also GIANTS.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth