Smith as hero.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L113.6
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVII
- Slavic Russian Folk-Tales , Chapter II
- Finnish The Kalevala , Rune X
- Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. XIII
- Norse The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus , Book 9
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic Þiðriks saga I 73ff., 114–34 (Velent), Boberg.
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