Unknown son returns to father's court — Mythoi

Motif

Unknown son returns to father's court.

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Accidental reunion of families. · view the constellation · filed as N731.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Greek Fox 119 (Paris).

Within the index

Filed under Unexpected meeting of father and son.

1 finer motif beneath it

King unknowingly adopts his own lost son

Filed beside it

Father-son combat. Neither knows who the other is. (Sohrab and Rustem.) Father unexpectedly meets abandoned son and reinstates him At execution block condemned man discovered to be king's unknown son

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