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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.

  • IcelandicBoberg.
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Filed under Bluffing threat.

Filed beside it
Sham threat: "In earnest or in jest?" A man asks another who has brushed against him: "Did you do that in earnest or in jest?" – "In earnest." – "I am glad, for I don't like that kind of jesting."Sham threat: either ... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)."Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work."Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duelSham threat: if I were not a philosopher I should break your head for youGirl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returnsSham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending shipKing menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet

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