Riddle: what is the sweetest song? — Mythoi

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Riddle: what is the sweetest song?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H634

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.
general *Type 922
general *Anderson FFC XLII 233

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of the superlative.

1 finer motif beneath it

What is the sweetest song? Angel song

Filed beside it

Riddle: what is the strongest? Riddle: what is the swiftest? Riddle: what is sweetest? Riddle: what is the sweetest sound? Riddle: what is the richest? Riddle: what is the hardest? Riddle: what is costliest? Riddle: what is most beautiful? Riddle: what is highest? Riddle: what is deepest? Riddle: what is longest? Riddle: what is the heaviest? Riddle: what is greenest? Riddle: what is the most beloved? Riddle: what is best? Riddle: what is brightest?

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 702 recorded variants
The Shepherd Substituting for the Clergyman Answers the King's Questions · ATU 922 4 recorded variants

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