Quest for bride richest and poorest

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Quest for bride richest and poorest.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests for the unique. · view the constellation · filed as H1311.2

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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 Type 585
general BP III 355.

Within the index

Filed under Quest for the richest person.

Filed beside it

King seeks one richer (more magnificent) than himself. (Cf. H1395.)

Carried in tale types

Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle · ATU 5852 recorded variants

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