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* '''rockbound:''' in Greek mythology, Prometheus was bound to a rock; his liver was eaten by a vulture during the day, but grew back at night → [[all the livvylong night]] | * '''rockbound:''' in Greek mythology, Prometheus was bound to a rock; his liver was eaten by a vulture during the day, but grew back at night → [[all the livvylong night]] | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0327&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0327&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''rockbound:''' Jacob surrounded his head with rocks before his dream of the angels descending and ascending the ladder to heaven | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:03, 2 June 2019
- rockbound: surrounded by rocks → Sandvike, in which Wagner's opera Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is set, is rockbound → see a horn! for Wagnerian allusions
- rockbound: in Arthurian legend, Merlin was entombed alive in a rock by Morgana La Faye → FW 005.35-36: merlinburrow burrocks
- rockbound: in Greek mythology, Prometheus was bound to a rock; his liver was eaten by a vulture during the day, but grew back at night → all the livvylong night
- rockbound: Jacob surrounded his head with rocks before his dream of the angels descending and ascending the ladder to heaven
