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Riddle: what is best?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H648

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Cited in the index
  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 95
  • general *Krappe Revue Celtique XLVII 401ff.
Within the index

Filed under Riddles of the superlative.

2 finer motifs beneath it
What is best? God What is best? Water
Filed beside it
Riddle: what is the strongest? Riddle: what is the swiftest? Riddle: what is sweetest? Riddle: what is the sweetest song? 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 brightest?
Carried in tale types

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