μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Castle of extraordinary size.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary buildings and furnishings. · view the constellation · filed as F771.8

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 349, 529, 915.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary castle (house, palace).

Filed beside it
Castle of unusual material Castle (house) with extraordinary support Extraordinary location of castle Inhabitants of extraordinary castle Extraordinary guard for castle Phantom house: disappears at dawn Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rosewater, and honey 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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