Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant

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Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Propounding of riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H561.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 317 No. 146.
general *BP II 359 n. 2
general Fb "Salomon"

Within the index

Filed under Solvers of riddles.

1 finer motif beneath it

King Solomon as master riddle-solver. (Cf. H540.2.1, H540.4.)

Filed beside it

Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions to his clever minister King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers Druid as solver of riddles Cleric as solver of riddles Clever prince interprets enigmatic statements Saint as solver of riddles

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