Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain — Mythoi

Motif

Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.1.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 530
general *BP III 111 n. 3
general Köhler-Bolte I 67
general Hdwb. d. Märchens II 627ff.
general **Boberg Prinsessen på Glasbjærget (Danske Studier [1928] 16ff.)
general *Fb "glarbjærg" I 459
general Krappe The Glass Mountain (Modern Language Quarterly VIII 139–145)

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: difficult riding.

Filed beside it

Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear) Suitor contest: riding across pit Suitor contest: riding through fire Suitor contest: jumping river on horseback Contest in reaping: best reaper to get beautiful girl as wife

Carried in tale types

The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 530 27 recorded variants

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