Suitor task: to defeat enemies

Motif

Suitor task: to defeat enemies.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H335.4

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.

Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it

Suitor task: to bring enemy's head Suitor task: to overcome robbers Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors Suitor task: to kill (defeat) unwelcome suitor

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: avenging bride's father's death before marriage Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd Suitor task: killing ferocious animal Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.)

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