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Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. · view the constellation · filed as F940

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga 136
  • Chinese Graham.
  • general *Fb "synke"
  • general Þorsteinssaga Vikingssona 417, 421, 432
  • general Ásmundarsaga Kappabana (Zwei Fornaldarsogur ed. F. Detter, Halle a. S. 1891) 82
  • general Göngu Hrólfssaga 330, 339
  • general Sörla saga sterka (FAS III) 440, 444, 446
  • general Hjálmthèrssaga ok Ölvis 471
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Building sinks into earth Man sinks into earth Sinking into mud in duel City sinks in the sea Person gradually submerged by sea Ground opens and swallows forest Object sinks into earth Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.)

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