μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 Kittredge Gawain 5ff.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous quests.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeerQuest for unknown story (epic)Quest for unknown wonder
Filed beside it
Impossible questsAllegorical questsEnigmatical questsParadoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.)Quest for unknown personQuest for unknown animalQuest for lost personsQuest for lost objectQuest: answer to certain questionQuest for armor from a grave moundQuest to distant sage for adviceQuest for person who has not known sorrowHeroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.)Quest for light-giving childQuest for enemies

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