The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him — Mythoi

Motif

The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P319.4

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Two friends captured by Moors have money to ransom only one. The ransomed one returns home, gets money and buys the other's freedom Man who has counseled friend in assassination asks to be killed on the other's body Friend's intercession saves man from execution Hands of friends extend through sides of tombs and clasp in death Successful rival gives his lady to unsuccessful friend "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other Danger of one saint voluntarily incurred by another

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