Identification by matching parts of divided token

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Identification by matching parts of divided token.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H100

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IcelandicBoberg.

Within the index

5 finer motifs beneath it

Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon Identification by indenture. Each of two persons keeps his half of a contract which has been torn in two. Fitting of the halves brings about recognition Pieces taken from flags serve to identify Parts of slain animals as token of slaying Identification by severed limbs. (Cf. also H105.)

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Identification through broken ring. (Cf. H100.) The two parts of the ring fit together

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