What is strongest? Earth.
Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H631.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 6060.— THE TWO BROTHERS.
- GreekThe Iliad, Book 9
- Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 1.64
- NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 9
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 9090.— THE YOUNG GIANT.
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- general Type 875
- general De Vries FFC LXXIII 85
- general *BP II 357
- general Köhler-Bolte I 457f.
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 8755772 recorded variants