Grosser Mythen

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The '''Grosser Mythen''' (also ''Grosse Mythe'', {{lit|Large Mythe[n]}}) is a mountain in the Schwyzer Alps of Central Switzerland. The mountain lies in the canton of Schwyz, to the east of the town of Schwyz, and to the south of the village of Alpthal in the valley of the river Alp.<ref>{{cite map |publisher=Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo |location=Wabern, Switzerland |title=Mythen |url=https://s.geo.admin.ch/657fefcbd8 |scale=[1:100,000] |map=33 Toggenburg |map-url=http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/en/home/products/maps/national/100.html |series=National Map 1:100'000 |number=33 Toggenburg |date=2007 |via=geo.admin.ch |accessdate=2016-01-19}}</ref> The Rotenfluh is located to the south of the Grosser Mythen.

It is accessible from the Holzegg by a hiking trail, which is opened during the summer months only.

Geologically the Mythen is a penninic Klippe.

==Name== The name is pronounced [ˈmiːtən]; it is in origin the plural referring to the Grosser and Kleiner Mythen collectively, each of which had the name ''Mythe'' (feminine) in the singular. The name is unrelated to the now-homographic German word for "myth"; Weibel (1973) derives it from Latin ''meta'' "cone, pyramid". Until the late 19th century, the name of the mountain was still feminine, ''die Grosse Mythe''; after c. 1870, the masculine gender became increasingly common in written German although dialectically the feminine remains current.<ref>Viktor Weibel, 'Namenkunde des Landes Schwyz. Die Orts- und Flurnamen in ihrer historischen Schichtung und dialektologischen Relevanz'. In: ''Studia Linguistica Alemannica'' vol. 1, Frauenfeld, 1973. Use of ''y'' for [iː] in Swiss toponyms is widespread (as e.g. in ''Schwyz'' itself) and arises with a ligature ''ij'' as used 15th-century handwriting. </ref> [[File:Johann Heinrich Müller, 1825-1894 D09 Grosser Mythen, 1877.JPG|thumb|left|''The Summit of 'Grosse Mythe''', 1877. Watercolour by Heinrich Müller]] {{clear|left}}

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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Gross Mythen}} * [http://www.hikr.org/dir/Grosser_Mythen_3457/ Grosser Mythen on Hikr]

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Category:Mountains of the Alps Category:Mountains of Switzerland Category:Mountains of the canton of Schwyz Category:One-thousanders of Switzerland