μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • EnglishWells 147 (Ipomedon)
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general *Type 508
  • general Cosquin Contes Indiens 329ff.
  • general *Liljeblad 39ff.
  • general Dickson 181
Within the index

Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

1 finer motif beneath it
Suitor contest: success in battle
Filed beside it
Suitor contest: difficult ridingSuitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin MarySuitor contest: shootingSuitor contest: raceSuitor contest: wrestling. (Cf. H1562.9.)Suitor contest: aiming with missileSuitor contest: splitting antlersSuitor contest: trappingSuitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one dayPrincess given to the one confessing all his treacherySuitor contest: splitting block of woodSuitor contest: cheatingSuitor contest: trial of strengthSuitor contest: animal fightSuitor contest: throwing ball up to princessSuitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.)
Carried in tale types

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