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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.

  • IcelandicBoberg.
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Filed under Extremely old person.

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Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted upSending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generationsVery old womanMan so old he sleeps in cradleKing so old that he only can take food from a hornPerson hundreds of years oldMan lives for nine generations

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