μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 145ff., (1931) 107ff.
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 134 No. 85
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • West IndiesFlowers 562.
Within the index

Filed under Other promises.

Filed beside it
Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.)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 futurePromise 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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