Quest for the most beautiful bride

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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
EnglishWells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon)
Missouri FrenchCarrière
IndiaThompson-Balys
TuamotuStimson MS (T-G 3/109, 3/404, z-G. 13/317)
ChilePino 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 4022 recorded variants

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