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Motif

Father-son combat. Neither knows who the other is. (Sohrab and Rustem.)

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Accidental reunion of families. · view the constellation · filed as N731.2

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 135 (Sir Degare)
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Greek Fox 140 (Telegonos and Odysseus)
  • Arabian Burton Nights VII 89 n.
  • Chinese Werner Myths 315–319, Coyajee JPASB XXIV 179
  • Philippine Dixon 235
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 508.
  • general **Potter Sohrab and Rustem
  • general Deutschbein I 232ff.
  • general Potter FL XV 216ff.
  • general Rank Inzest-Motif 164ff.
  • general Hibbard 227 n. 5
  • general *Köhler-Bolte II 256ff.
  • general L. Wolff Hessische Blätter f. Volksk. XXXIX 54–63. – Irish: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 145, 169 (Cuchulainn, Fionn), Thurneysen 403ff.
  • general Persian Carnoy 332
Within the index

Filed under Unexpected meeting of father and son.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Hero fights with friend of father and then reveals himself Undesired combat between sworn (blood) brothers (foster brothers)
Filed beside it
Unknown son returns to father's court Father unexpectedly meets abandoned son and reinstates him At execution block condemned man discovered to be king's unknown son
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Unwitting combat between sons of friends. Recognition and reconciliation. (Cf. N731.2.)

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