μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • English romanceMalory X 21, 34, 36
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • AfricaBouveignes 163.
Within the index

Filed under Father and son.

Filed beside it
Son as pledge for father who has committed murderYoung hero rebuked by his fatherBerserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincibleNatural son preferred to legitimateOldest son responsible to father for welfare of othersSon must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his motherProdigal son returnsSon chastizes father for scorning motherFather in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptationBirthright transferred by father from the oldest son to another. (Cf. P251.7.)

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