μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
The motif on our shelf — written from the served texts; every claim cited  receipt

The three heavens are served — one chapter away from where our wiring points. Thompson cites Snorri’s Gylfaginning XVII; the resolved row lands on the chapter our translation numbers XVII, the post-Ragnarok Regeneration, which has its own triad of good abodes: “Best it is to be in Gimle, in heaven”; Brimer — “That is also in heaven”; and a hall of red gold on the Nida mountains, Sindre [The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVII]. The passage the index wants sits earlier in the served book, among the wonderful things in heaven. Asked who guards Gimle — where “In this hall the good and the righteous shall dwell through all ages” — when Surt’s fire comes, Har answers that “above this heaven is another heaven, which is called Andlang”, and “there is a third, which is above these, and is called Vidblain”, where Gimle itself stands — “we deem that the light-elves alone dwell in it now” [The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. VII]. Three heavens stacked like shelves, the fairest hall on the topmost. The mismatch is a numbering seam between Snorri’s chapters and Anderson’s divisions — a wiring fix; the text itself is complete and exact.

Witnesses: The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. VII · The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVII

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Within the index

Filed under Series of upper worlds.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Third sky above prevents earth being burned by sunRegion above the three worlds
Filed beside it
Highest of celestial worlds consists of twenty heavensFour heavensFive heavensSeven heavens. A series of seven upper worldsEight heavensNine heavensTen heavensSeries of upper worlds – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Horses of the gods. (Cf. A171.1.)Origin of swans from two fowls fed in Urd's wellCastles of gold and silver in otherworldCastles thatched with silver in otherworld. (Cf. F163.3.2.)Giant's treasure. (Cf. F531.6.8.3.1.)

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