Funnily enough, most of the lit about medieval Gog and Magog stuff brings up the fact that it's in the Koran (Quran? I'm never certain of the preferred spelling) too, and that the two-horned guy who walls them up is identified with Alexander, tying it in with the Western medieval Alexander romance version; but that's about it.
It is kind of interesting, though, when you have what is essentially the same, or at least interrelated, stories about G&Min the traditions of all three Peoples of the Book, and yet everyone seems to think it refers to each other. XD At least I'm writing on the identification of Gog and Magog by Christians with the Jews, and subsequently with the Turks (the Travels of Sir John Mandeville repeat the story that a fox will lead them out of the land, and he claims that supposedly the fox is Mohammed, who convinces the Jews of the lost ten tribes of Israel to convert to Islam and take over the world - apparently they are also incestuous and cannibalistic, like your midgets...lol Middle Ages), and I seem to remember at least one Muslim interpretation that said G&M were the whitey Christians?
And I'm not even going to get into the English Gog and Magog, who are indigenous giants who end up becoming the guardians of London, which is completely cracked out.
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It is kind of interesting, though, when you have what is essentially the same, or at least interrelated, stories about G&Min the traditions of all three Peoples of the Book, and yet everyone seems to think it refers to each other. XD At least I'm writing on the identification of Gog and Magog by Christians with the Jews, and subsequently with the Turks (the Travels of Sir John Mandeville repeat the story that a fox will lead them out of the land, and he claims that supposedly the fox is Mohammed, who convinces the Jews of the lost ten tribes of Israel to convert to Islam and take over the world - apparently they are also incestuous and cannibalistic, like your midgets...lol Middle Ages), and I seem to remember at least one Muslim interpretation that said G&M were the whitey Christians?
And I'm not even going to get into the English Gog and Magog, who are indigenous giants who end up becoming the guardians of London, which is completely cracked out.