Quest for unknown objects or places — Mythoi

Motif

Quest for unknown objects or places.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Miscellaneous quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1382

Cited in the index

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 reindeer Quest for unknown story (epic) Quest for unknown wonder

Filed beside it

Impossible quests Allegorical quests Enigmatical quests Paradoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.) Quest for unknown person Quest for unknown animal Quest for lost persons Quest for lost object Quest: answer to certain question Quest for armor from a grave mound Quest to distant sage for advice Quest for person who has not known sorrow Heroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.) Quest for light-giving child Quest for enemies

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