Task: making shirt from piece of linen three inches square

Motif

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

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

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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.

general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 64
general Herbert Catalogue III 206.

Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible amount of material.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Task: weaving cloth from two threads Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool)Task: making sails for ship from one bundle of linen; countertask: making spindle and loom from one stick of wood. (Cf. H951.)Task: feeding army from one measure of meal Task: making many kinds of food from one small bird Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle Task: brewing impossible amount of ale from one grain of corn Task: bringing quantity of mosquito bones within month; countertask: furnishing scales with wind as beams and heat as pans. (Cf. H951.)

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