Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)

Motif

Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F663

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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 myth*Cross
IcelandicBoberg.
general *Fb "smed" III 402ab
general Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen CLX (1931) 166ff., CLXI (1932) 1--9

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Skillful smith calls self master of all masters Skillful smith shoes running horse Clever smith makes needle that pierces anvil

Filed beside it

Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing Skillful marksman Skillful tailor Skillful flayer Skillful barber Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like Skillful fencer (swordsman)Skillful surgeon Skillful shipbuilder Man can keep together feathers in great wind Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream Ingenious carpenter Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Skillful tracker Skillful milker

Travels with

Fairies skillful as smiths Lie: remarkable smith. (Cf. F663.)

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