μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.
  • IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 272
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2, 326 No. 2
  • GermanKahlo Harz. 54 No. 91.
Within the index

Filed under Dwarfs and human beings.

Filed beside it
Helpful dwarfsMalevolent dwarfDwarfs are ancestors of mortalsMortal goes to land of dwarfsDwarfs have mortal god-parent. (Cf. F420.5.3.3.)Dwarfs visit mortal's homeDwarfs associate with mortalsDwarfs and Christianity. (Cf. F420.5.3.4. and cross-references there given. Cf. also F451.9.1.6.)Business relations of dwarfs and mortalsDwarfs suffer abuses by mortalsDwarfs thwart efforts of mortals to get additional favorsDwarfs exact promise from mortalsDwarfs tease mortalsDwarfs give riddles and questions to mortalsDwarfs dislike human vicesDwarfs invisibly attend wedding or christening feasts of mortals. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.)
Travels with
Water-spirit calls human midwife. (Cf. F372.1, F451.3.5.5, F451.5.5.)
Carried in tale types

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