phaecians

Updated: May 10, 2025

There finding a covert sheltered by intermingling branches alike from the sun and the rain, he collected a pile of leaves and formed a bed, on which he stretched himself, and heaping the leaves over him, fell asleep. The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the country of the Phaecians.

Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable