Vow rather to die (on a spear) than to accept grace. (Cf. M165.)

Motif

Vow rather to die (on a spear) than to accept grace. (Cf. M165.)

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Other vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M161.4

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IcelandicRagnars saga Loðbr. 139–41, *Boberg.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens II s. v. "Gnade ausbitten"

Within the index

Filed under Vow never to flee in fear of death.

Filed beside it

Vow to attack (kill) the enemy or die Vow to revenge (king, friends, father) or die Vow to live and die with the king Rather die than go in the enemy's service Rather die in battle than in bed

Travels with

Vow to ask nobody for peace, grace. (Cf. M161.4.)

wander