King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions

Motif

King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Propounding of riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H561.2

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general *Type 922
general **Anderson FFC XLII
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 55
general Fb "hyrde" I 719

Within the index

Filed under Solvers of riddles.

Filed beside it

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Travels with

How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.)

Carried in tale types

The Shepherd Substituting for the Clergyman Answers the King's Questions · ATU 9224 recorded variants

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