μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • IcelandicBoberg.
  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous quests.

1 finer motif beneath it
Question: What is it women most desire. Answer: Sovereignty
Filed beside it
Impossible questsAllegorical questsEnigmatical questsParadoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.)Quest for unknown personQuest for unknown objects or placesQuest for unknown animalQuest for lost personsQuest for lost objectQuest 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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