The constellation
P310 Friendship
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- Friends want to divide good and evil · P310.1 entry
- Friends avenge each other · P310.2 entry
- Dying hero sends greetings to friends · P310.3 entry
- Friends want their children to be friends too · P310.4 entry
- Defeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.) · P310.5 entry
- One friend dies shortly after the other · P310.6 entry
- Man wins wife for his friend · P310.7 entry
- Friendship possible only between equals · P310.8 entry
- Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts · P310.9 entry
- Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood · P311 entry
- Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood · P312 entry
- Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman · P313 entry
- Combat of disguised friends · P314 entry
- Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325 · P315 entry
- Friend sacrifices his life for the other · P316 entry
- Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one · P317 entry
- Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct · P318 entry
- Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous · P319 entry
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