μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined warrior's face and torn his beard off.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.2.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga 186–89, Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Change of bodily appearance so as to escape.

Filed beside it
Disguise by shaving off beard so as to escape Disguise by mutilation so as to escape. Ears cut off, eyes put out, etc Disguise as farmer so as to escape Disguise as carpenter so as to escape

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “warrior's” · wander