μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • IcelandicÖrvar-Odds saga 52–55.
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Filed under Murder in one's sleep.

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Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishesHeroes dislike to kill sleeping peopleMan murdered at his wife's side. (Cf. K873.1.)Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellor

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