μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Arrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goods.

Reversal of fortune. · Pride brought low. · Arrogance repaid. · view the constellation · filed as L434

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Hrafnkels saga Freysgods ch. 2ff. (ed. F. S. Cawley) (Cambridge, Mass., 1932).
Within the index

Filed under Arrogance repaid.

Filed beside it
Arrogant mistress repaid in kind by her lover Impoverished husband begs from wife's new husband. He has formerly refused this man charity Self-righteousness punished

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