Riddles of comparison

Motif

Riddles of comparison.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of comparison. · view the constellation · filed as H660

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThe Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter V

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 Boberg Danske Studier 1945, 1ff., and Øst og Vest, Afhandlinger til Arthur Christensen (Kbhvn. 1945) 192. Irish myth: Cross.

Within the index

7 finer motifs beneath it

Riddle: what is swifter than a bird, the wind or lightning? The eye. (Cf. H632.2.)Riddle: what is dearer than gold? Mother love. (Cf. H651.2.)Riddle: what is whiter than a swan? An angel Riddle: what is sweeter than honey? (Cf. H633.)Riddle: what is softer than swan down? (Cf. H652.1.)Riddle: what is harder than stone? (Cf. H637.)Who is greater than God? Man's purpose

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