Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Miscellaneous tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1199.8

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Other tasks.

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: 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.) Task: guarding

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Tasks assigned because of man's boast

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “defending” · wander