μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general *Chauvin VI 194 No. 363
Within the index

Filed under End of king's reign.

4 finer motifs beneath it
King on retiring orders funeral obsequies given himKing learning of queen's adultery abdicatesThe higher the office held in this world, the heavier the judgment of God: Cuchulinn's reason for abjuring kingshipFather abdicates in favor of son
Filed beside it
King must resign if maimed (disfigured)King killed when oldPersons buried with dead kingShavings of spear which killed king cast into cataractKings worshipped after their deathKing slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his fatherLand where every raja dies; if he rules for a day he dies that night; if he rules for a night, he dies that dayKing's coffin sunk into river

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