Quest for the most beautiful bride — Mythoi

Motif

Quest for the most beautiful bride.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests for the unique. · view the constellation · filed as H1301.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
English Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon)
Missouri French Carrière
India Thompson-Balys
Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G 3/109, 3/404, z-G. 13/317)
Chile Pino Saavedra 402–405.
general Type 402
general BP III 18, Fb "brud" IV 65a

Within the index

Filed under Quest for the most beautiful of women.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Quest for bride as handsome as the hero Quest for faraway princess Hero visits all islands to see if he can find woman to rival wife's beauty

Carried in tale types

The Animal Bride (previously The Mouse [Cat, Frog, etc · ATU 402 2 recorded variants

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