According to Coleridge's poem, the site is located in Xanadu, described as a savage place located where the Alph river ran through endless caverns featuring bright gardens and forests ancient as the hills with sunny spots of greenery, all holy and enchanted.
Shroud
/SHroud/
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verb
past tense: shrouded; past participle: shrouded
1.
wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial.
2.
cover or envelop so as to conceal from view.
"mountains shrouded by cloud"
In the story Odysseus' men after a terrible storm slay the sun god's heifers in order to not die of starvation. the only survivor was Odysseus.
