Marvelous runner swift as thought — Mythoi

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Marvelous runner swift as thought.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Other marvelous powers. · view the constellation · filed as F681.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 190
Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 81, 93, Boberg
N. Am. Indian (Ojibwa) Michelson JAFL XXIV 249.

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Filed under Marvelous runner.

1 finer motif beneath it

Contest between runner swift as thought and one swift as sight. Former wins

Filed beside it

Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away Marvelous runner outstrips March wind Marvelous runner swift as sight Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run Marvelous runner runs backwards Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders Marvelous swift plower Marvelous swift mower Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass) Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him

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