Riddle: how deep is the earth (or how far to lower world)?

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Riddle: how deep is the earth (or how far to lower world)?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of distance. · view the constellation · filed as H681.2

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.

general Anderson FFC XLII 140.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of terrestrial distance.

2 finer motifs beneath it

How deep is the earth? It is deep: my grandfather went into it (died) years ago and has not yet returned How deep is the earth? My father went five years ago to measure it (died); when he returns I shall tell you the result

Filed beside it

Riddle: how far is it from one end of the earth to the other (east to west)?Riddle: what is the center of the earth?Riddle: how deep is the sea?

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