Rockbound

• 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
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• 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
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• rockbound: Jacob surrounded his head with rocks before his dream of the angels descending and ascending the ladder to heaven