Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.2.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references
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.
- Icelandic*Boberg
- Missouri FrenchCarrière
- Italian NovellaRotunda
- Jewish*Neuman
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- JapaneseIkeda.
- general *Usener Die Sintfluthsagen (Bonn, 1899) 80ff.
- general Hdwb. d. Märchens I s. v. "Aussetzung in Boot"