μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 myth*Cross
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight § 5
Within the index

Filed under Other vows and oaths.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Vow not to eat before learning secretVow not to marry until quest is concludedVow not to take food or drink until manner of father's death is learnedVow not to take food or drink until enemy is killedVow not to eat or sleep until certain event is brought to passVow not to eat or drink before knowing if king is aliveHeroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero. (Cf. H341.)Vow not to eat until lost son is foundVow not to see friends until quest is completed
Filed beside it
Vow not to go to bed with wife till enemy is killedVow to perform act of prowessVow to watch at frightful place all nightVow to ride the forest all night and slay all comersVow never to refuse food to any manVow never to flee in fear of deathVow not to be killed by a single opponentVow never to make a nocturnal assaultBard vows that none of his profession will make a request of any manVow to ask nobody for peace, grace. (Cf. M161.4.)Other vows about fightingVow to serve only the most generous of all kingsVow not to devastate country or take revenge after releaseVow never to accept a man who does not know any sportVow not to touch certain thingPledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime

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