Berserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincible

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Berserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincible.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P233.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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IcelandicBoberg.

Within the index

Filed under Father and son.

1 finer motif beneath it

Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain

Filed beside it

Son as pledge for father who has committed murder Young hero rebuked by his father Natural son preferred to legitimate Oldest son responsible to father for welfare of others Son avenges father Son must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his mother Prodigal son returns Son chastizes father for scorning mother Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation Birthright transferred by father from the oldest son to another. (Cf. P251.7.)

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