Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first swords

Motif

Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first swords.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkably strong man. · view the constellation · filed as F611.3.3

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
IcelandicHerrmann Saxo III 305, *Boberg.
general *Von Sydow Fâvne 22ff.

Within the index

Filed under Strong hero acquires his strength. (Cf. F611.2.2.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Precocious strong hero demands bows and arrows. (Cf. F611.3.3.)Hero tests sword by cutting steer in two Strong hero tests scythes: they break all

Filed beside it

Extraordinary strength from fasting for 12 years and eating nothing except earth Strong hero practices uprooting trees. (Cf. F621.)Hero's precocious strength. Has full strength when very young

Travels with

Precocious strong hero demands bows and arrows. (Cf. F611.3.3.)

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