Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage — Mythoi

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Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage.

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Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Suitor task: avenging bride's former fiance before marriage

Filed beside it

Bride helps suitor perform his tasks Girl assigns tasks to her suitors Devil as suitor assigned tasks Suitor tasks announced by inscription on statue Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd Suitor task: killing ferocious animal Suitor task: to defeat enemies Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.)

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