Quest for bride for king (prince).
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Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth *Cross
- Icelandic Bósa saga 49, *Boberg
- Hindu Tawney I 380
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Indonesian De Vries's list No. 218.
- general *Type 531
- general *Schoepperle I 188 n. 3
- general Thien Motive 7
- general BP III 18
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 216 recorded variants
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