Beautiful land of dead. (Rosengarten)

Motif

Beautiful land of dead. (Rosengarten).

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 79f.

Within the index

Filed under Land of the dead.

1 finer motif beneath it

Avalon. (Cf. F323.) Happy otherworld where dead are healed

Filed beside it

Spain as land of the dead. (Cf. F130.2.)Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land Land of dead in lower world Land of dead across water Abode of dead in mountain Ghost lives midway between heaven and earth Land of dead in one of the cardinal directions Icy inferno. (Cf. E481.6.1.)Land of dead in sky King of world of dead. (Cf. E481.1.1.)

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