μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Extraordinary guard for castle.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary buildings and furnishings. · view the constellation · filed as F771.5

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary castle (house, palace).

3 finer motifs beneath it
Castle guarded by beasts Castle guarded by giants (ogres) Serpent-hall
Filed beside it
Castle of unusual material Castle (house) with extraordinary support Extraordinary location of castle Inhabitants of extraordinary castle Phantom house: disappears at dawn Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rosewater, and honey Castle of extraordinary size Road runs through house (banqueting-hall) Castle shall stand when everything else has departed (Gimle and Brimir) Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives Building at bottom of which flows stream of rubies Castle warmed by love. No fire is required because love makes perpetual summer

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