King (prince) returns home (from exile) and rescues his native country

Motif

King (prince) returns home (from exile) and rescues his native country.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as R191

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.

Icelandic*Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Rescue – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Rescue at the stake. (Cf. R151.2, R154.1.1, R164.2, R215.)Executioner miraculously blinded: condemned man saved Demon enclosed in bottle released True rescuer hidden by girl when he arrives to claim her Mortal fights with "Death". (Cf. R169.16.)Horn of Roncevalles. Hero calls aid of waiting soldiers on horn Rescued person horrifies rescuers: e.g., they swoon on seeing him

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