μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda.
  • general E. Hinojosa Homenaje a Menéndez y Pelayo I 568ff.
  • general R. Menéndez Pidal Cantar del Mio Cid II 498
Within the index

Filed under Customs. [Note: Except in so far as customs enter narratives, they are not in the scope of this work.]

4 finer motifs beneath it
Fur made of beards of conquered kingsCutting off a man's (woman's) hair as an insultRubbing shaved head of hero with cow dung as insultInsult: lighting lamp with king's moustache
Filed beside it
Women meet when bathingTrumpet blown before house of one sentenced to deathCharon's fee: putting coin in dead person's mouth to pay for ferry across StyxNewcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriagePeople weep when child is born. They sing and laugh at burialsBridle goes with horse when horse is boughtServant must keep horns and hide of his cattle that are slainFasting (as a means of distraint)Strangers to be given precedence over man at home. Duke permits visiting duke to go through narrow path first. This sets customCustoms concerning recognition of rankYoung not to precede oldFeastsInjured husband will not kill a naked manOnly the brave to wear beardsWith only opponent's arms. Hero goes to encounter unarmed except for the arms he wrests from his opponentHero unwilling to answer questions before he is dressed
Travels with
Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.)

wander