Soria Moria Castle

They offered that any of them would marry him, and he chose the youngest princess, but he missed his parents and wanted to tell them what had happened.

He set out to find them, bought a horse, and found a cottage with an old couple where the woman had a nose long enough to stir the fire with.

The search for Soria Moria castle might be thought of as a progression, the symbol for perfect happiness.

According to legend, the path to the castle is not clearly marked, and the journey is solitary because all people are different and therefore cannot reach the goal in the same manner.

More recently, it appeared in the form of a song titled Soria Moria in a 1989 album from Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø.

[5] Musician Phil Elverum mentioned the painting of the castle and chasm on his 2017 album A Crow Looked At Me as Mount Eerie, using it as an allegory for the seemingly untraversable path taken to escape grief.

The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife".

He goes after her on a long quest, often helped by the elements (Sun, Moon and Wind) or by the rulers of animals of the land, sea and air.

JRR Tolkien acknowledged that the name (in sound, not meaning) lay behind his "Mines of Moria.