Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman

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Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P313

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Cosquin Études 247ff.
general Wiedemann Am Urquell III 259ff.

Within the index

Filed under Friendship.

1 finer motif beneath it

Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged

Filed beside it

Friends want to divide good and evil Friends avenge each other Dying hero sends greetings to friends Friends want their children to be friends too Defeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.)One friend dies shortly after the other Man wins wife for his friend Friendship possible only between equals Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood Combat of disguised friends Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325 Friend sacrifices his life for the other Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct

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