What does the fabled fairyland symbolize in this paragraph from the passage? we had such glimpses of the rhone gliding along between its grassy banks; of cosy cottages buried in flowers and shrubbery; of quaint old red-tiled villages with mossy medieval cathedrals looming out of their midst; of wooded hills with ivy-grown towers and turrets of feudal castles projecting above the foliage; such glimpses of paradise, it seemed to us, such visions of fabled fairyland! heaven medieval times future civilizations the rhone river