μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Curse given to negate good wish. Odin gives man life three times the normal; Thor ordains that in each he is to commit crime. Odin gives him the choicest weapons; Thor denies him landed property, etc.

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Pronouncement of curses. · view the constellation · filed as M416

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 73.
Within the index

Filed under Pronouncement of curses.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Curse: appetite of twelve men. Given with the gift of twelve men's strength Curse: eternal life without eternal youth
Filed beside it
Deliverer of curse Time of giving curse Place of giving curse Recipient of curse Irrevocable curse Method of cursing

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