Task: guarding — Mythoi

Motif

Task: guarding.

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Filed under Other tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: guarding palace at night that no one can enter or leave Task: guarding six sisters-in-law so that they do not joke or talk to anyone

Filed beside it

Task: planting beautiful garden Task: healing sick person Task: shouting from forbidden place Task: engraving shield with unique pattern Task: disenchantment. (Cf. D700.)Task: swine to shake bole of certain tree Task: swine to eat fish of certain waters Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.)Task: ridding city of thieves Task: jumping over fire Task: going to bed with Odin, the underworld's king Task: unusual pasturing Task: squaring the lumber on a stone without blunting the axe. Woman is purposely sent to distract him Task: climbing extraordinary (high, thin) cliff Task: securing dishes which have been locked up in vault Task: producing seven pairs of chopsticks in seven plates. (A lacquered plate and pair of chopsticks – seven coats of lacquer.)