Task: weaving mantle from wool of a single sheep

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Task: weaving mantle from wool of a single sheep.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1022.4.2

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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.

Irish myth*Cross.

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Filed under Task: making shirt from piece of linen three inches square.

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Task: making shirt derived from a single flax-seed Task: making shawl-cloth one hundred cubits in length out of one cocoon of silk

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