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

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

Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

EnglishWells 135 (Sir Degare)
Icelandic*Boberg
GreekFox 140 (Telegonos and Odysseus)
ArabianBurton Nights VII 89 n.
ChineseWerner Myths 315–319, Coyajee JPASB XXIV 179
PhilippineDixon 235
HawaiiBeckwith 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

Unwitting combat between sons of friends. Recognition and reconciliation. (Cf. N731.2.)

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