The constellation
A1630 Wandering of tribes
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
Thompson cites
- The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916) · Prologue IV
filed near
- Reasons for difference in population sizes in different areas · A1621 entry
- Distribution of tribes · A1620 entry
- Origin of inequalities among men · A1618 entry
- Origin of place-name · A1617 entry
- Emergence of tribe from lower world · A1631 entry
- Emergence of tribe from lower world stopped by fat woman or pregnant woman who becomes lodged in the hole of egress · A1631.1 entry
- Tribe climbs down from sky to earth · A1631.2 entry
- Origin of tribal subdivisions · A1640 entry