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M150 Other vows and oaths
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- Vow not to eat before hearing of adventure · M151 entry
- Vow not to go to bed with wife till enemy is killed · M152 entry
- Vow to perform act of prowess · M155 entry
- Vow to watch at frightful place all night · M156 entry
- Vow to ride the forest all night and slay all comers · M157 entry
- Vow never to refuse food to any man · M158 entry
- Vow never to flee in fear of death · M161 entry
- Vow not to be killed by a single opponent · M162 entry
- Vow never to make a nocturnal assault · M163 entry
- Bard vows that none of his profession will make a request of any man · M164 entry
- Vow to ask nobody for peace, grace. (Cf. M161.4.) · M165 entry
- Other vows about fighting · M166 entry
- Vow to serve only the most generous of all kings · M167 entry
- Vow not to devastate country or take revenge after release · M168 entry
- Vow never to accept a man who does not know any sport · M171 entry
- Vow not to touch certain thing · M172 entry
- Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime · M175 entry
- Vow to change religion · M177 entry
- Vow not to enter any house before reaching one's own · M182 entry
- Religious vows. (Cf. M177.) · M183 entry
- Vow if queen bears another girl she and child will both be killed · M184 entry
- Vow to abide by laws · M185 entry
- Vow never to pass over demarcation line into other's property · M186 entry
- Oath to abide by results of lot drawing · M187 entry