μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 mythCross
  • general Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Cambridge, Mass., 1933) 826 (Franklin's Tale)
  • general **Dempster and Tatlock in Bryan and Dempster Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 333–56
  • general cf. Type 976.
Within the index

Filed under Other promises.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.)Princess promises to embrace her teacher on her wedding day. Teacher has only been testing her promise
Filed beside it
Person promises to have but one consort if he is curedRetreat in return for cessation of attack. Host agrees to march back a day's journey if warrior will cease his feats of arms upon them until a certain battle in the futureMan promises to build church if he is saved at seaPromise to give another one's wife for a dayMarriage promised to save lifeSons agree to meet at father's grave after they have been out in world for one year to learn tradeSupernatural woman promises to return if she gives birth to a boy

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