Hero in disguise of foolish knight, then of black knight, rescues lady. (Cf. R222.)

Motif

Hero in disguise of foolish knight, then of black knight, rescues lady. (Cf. R222.)

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescuers. · view the constellation · filed as R169.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

EnglishWells 147 (Ipomadon).

Within the index

Filed under Other rescuers.

Filed beside it

Boys rescued from beasts by hermit. (Cf. N843, R131.10.)Boy saved by werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.1.)Hero rescued by servant. (Cf. P361, R53.4.)Hero rescued by friend Youth saved from death sentence by father's friend Royal minister rescues abandoned queen(s). (Cf. P110.)Predestined rescuer Boy rescued by childless woman Unpromising hero as rescuer. (Cf. L100.)Unknown helper(s) emerge(s) in the last moment and turn(s) out later to be well known. (Cf. R222.)Hero rescued by sailors Child rescued by nurse Wounded hero restored in peasant's house Rescue by stranger Death as rescuer. (Cf. R185.)

Travels with

Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens

wander