Bride offered to man who can find answer to question — Mythoi

Motif

Bride offered to man who can find answer to question.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Test of cleverness or ability. · view the constellation · filed as H508.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Italian Novella Rotunda.
general *Type 306
general BP I 198ff.
general Wesselski Märchen 211
general Malone PMLA XLIII 399

Within the index

Filed under Test: finding answer to certain question.

Filed beside it

King propounds questions to his sons to determine successor

Carried in tale types

The Danced-out Shoes · ATU 306 1 recorded variant

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