What is swiftest? Thought.
Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H632.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- NorseThe Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), PART OF THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGS-BANE
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVILXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 6
- Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 5.41
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.
- general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 71
- general *BP III 233.
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875702 recorded variants