μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
  • general *Kittredge Gawain 199 n. 2
Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

1 finer motif beneath it
Skillful axe-man makes spear-shafts with three chippings. Also at the same time sets them into the spear-rings
Filed beside it
Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are testedUnskilled man made skillful by saint's blessingSkillful marksmanSkillful tailorSkillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)Skillful flayerSkillful barberSkillful fencer (swordsman)Skillful surgeonSkillful shipbuilderMan can keep together feathers in great windSkillful painter. Can paint from description of a dreamIngenious carpenterSkillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Skillful trackerSkillful milker
Travels with
Lie: skillful axe-man. (Cf. F666.)

wander