Tolkien, like any great writer, knew how to steal from the broadest range of sources. I wonder if this tale was the inspiration for the shipwreck of Arvedui, last king of Arnor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship
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"it's like poetry, it rhymes" But seriously, the poetic quality of his mythmaking is what gives it weight. Arvedui being the last king in the north, who is lost in the north, whose name literally means last king, but leaves behind the ring of barahir, to be inherited by Aragorn.
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