Unpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughter.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L102
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Scholars’ trail — 7references
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.
- Irish mythCross
- BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "merle"
- Missouri FrenchCarrière: Italian Novella: *Rotunda
- TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/346)
- N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Benedict II 336.
- general See references to L50. – *BP I 165ff.
- general **Cox passim