Wren king of birds. Wins contest for kingship. (Cf. B236.1.)

Motif

Wren king of birds. Wins contest for kingship. (Cf. B236.1.)

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · King of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B242.1.2

Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Type 221
general *BP III 278 (Gr. No. 171)

Within the index

Filed under Various birds as king of birds.

1 finer motif beneath it

Wren as "druid of the birds" (drui én)

Filed beside it

Eagle king of birds Hornbill king of birds Pelican as king of birds Shrike as king of birds Jackdaw king of birds Peacock king of birds Owl as king of birds Swan as king of birds Ziz as king of birds

Travels with

Election of king of birds. (Cf. B232.)

Carried in tale types

The Election of King of Birds · ATU 2211 recorded variant

wander