μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
  • general *Valtyr Gudmundsson "Fóstbrædralag" in prjár Ritgjörethir (Kaupmannahöfn, 1892) 29–55
Within the index

Filed under Foster relatives.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Faithful foster brother Faithless foster brother Unable to hit man himself, enemy kills his foster brother Children of Tuatha De Danann fostered by Milesians
Filed beside it
Foster parents fined for blemish on child Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son Parents kill son for slaying their foster son Foster father Foster mother Foster sister Foster son

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