River between the realms of giants and gods never freezes

Motif

River between the realms of giants and gods never freezes.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Bounds of the otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F141.1.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 276.

Within the index

Filed under River as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F162.2.)

Filed beside it

Perilous river as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F767.1.)River that cannot be crossed by mortals

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