Dwarfs turn to stone at sunrise

Motif

Dwarfs turn to stone at sunrise.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.3.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 10, 197, 269, 270.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433a nn. 86–91

Within the index

Filed under Dwarf rendered powerless.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (especially forge weapons). (Cf. D451.3.4.2, D451.4.1.12, F451.5.2.13.)Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands

Filed beside it

Dwarfs must return to spirit world by 1 a.m Dwarfs cannot harm mortal with circle drawn around him Dwarf can be killed only with snowball

Travels with

Water-spirits must be in water before dawn; delay is punished with death. (Cf. F451.3.2.1. and cross-references there given.)

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