Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance

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Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

IcelandicÖrvar-Odds saga 136
ChineseGraham.
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

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Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.)

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