Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable

Motif

Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary cities. · view the constellation · filed as F767.1

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Inaccessible city.

Filed beside it

City protected by red-hot iron floor around it City inaccessible to death

Travels with

Perilous river as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F767.1.)

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