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Motif

Wandering of tribes.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Wandering of tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1630

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“From all these are sprung many and great houses. Then Odin began his way northward, and, came into the land which they called Reidgothland ; and in that land he took possession of all that pleased him. He set up over the land that son of his called Skjoldr, whose son was Frid- leifr, — and thence descends the house of the Skjoldungs: these are the kings of the Danes. And what was then called Reidgothland is now called Jutland.”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Prologue IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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  • Icel.Snorra Edda Prologue IV-V, Hermann Saxo II 85ff. → on our shelf: The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Prologue IV
  • HebrewExodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
  • JewishNeuman
  • ArmenianAnanikian 65. N. Am. Indian (Thompson, Gros Ventre, Sarcee, Blackfoot, Cheyenne): *Teit MAFLS XI 48ff., (Creek): Alexander N. Am. 63, (Sia): ibid. 203f.
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503, (Mundurucú): Horton ibid. (3) 281, (Brazil): Oberg. 108.
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Emergence of tribe from lower world

wander