μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IcelandicGöngu-Hrólfs saga 308, MacCulloch Eddic 265, 269
  • GermanHaas Grimmen 46 No. 54
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière.
Within the index

Filed under Home of dwarfs.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Dwarfs live in cavesDwarfs live in underground castleDwarfs live in luxurious underground palaceDwarfs live in underground passageDwarf home is underground, beneath cow stable. (Cf. F451.4.4.3.)Dwarfs undermine lowlands for homesEntrance to dwarf home leads through some filthy place under the swill hole or swill tubDwarfs live in the high banks of the seashoreBurial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfsSnow melts above dwarf's dwellingDwarfs live in hills and mountainsDwarfs live in stones. (Cf. F451.3.2.1.1.)
Filed beside it
Dwarfs have homes above the groundDescription of dwarf homeHome of dwarfs is endangered or destroyedGovernment among dwarfsIn dwarf land sunrise is at midnight

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