What is brightest? The sun.
Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H651.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- WelshThe Mabinogion, THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIGTHE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG
- Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 93
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 1, Canto 1
- Literary CrystallizationFaust: A Tragedy, Second Part, Act 3
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 6, Canto 130
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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 89.
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875702 recorded variants