King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd) — Mythoi

Motif

King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd).

Society. · Royalty and nobility. · Kings. · view the constellation · filed as P16.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
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 him King learning of queen's adultery abdicates The higher the office held in this world, the heavier the judgment of God: Cuchulinn's reason for abjuring kingship Father abdicates in favor of son

Filed beside it

King must resign if maimed (disfigured) King killed when old Persons buried with dead king Shavings of spear which killed king cast into cataract Kings worshipped after their death King slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his father Land where every raja dies; if he rules for a day he dies that night; if he rules for a night, he dies that day King's coffin sunk into river

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