Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon

Motif

Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H101

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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.

EnglishWells 80 (Sir Tristrem)
IcelandicRagnarssaga Loðbrókar 118, Boberg
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 18f.
Indonesiacf. De Vries's list No. 163.

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Filed under Identification by matching parts of divided token.

1 finer motif beneath it

Identification by matching weapon with wound

Filed beside it

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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