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Motif

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.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R222

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Scholars’ trail — 15references

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
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 18
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 349ff., 407, (Wichita): Dorsey JAFL XVI 160, (Skidi Pawnee): Dorsey MAFLS VIII Nos. 40, 41.
  • general **Weston The Three Days Tournament
  • general *Types 314, 502
  • general *BP III 111
  • general *Child V 44ff.
  • general *Webster Kittredge Memorial Volume 227
  • general Bruce MLN XXIV 257
  • general *Hibbard 226 n. 2
  • general *Fb "hest" I 598a
  • general Zs. f. Vksk. IV 98
  • general RTP VIII 82. English: Wells 48 (Lancelot of the Laik), 147 (Ipomadon)
Within the index

Filed under Flights.

Filed beside it
Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three timesGirl flees to escape incestuous brotherElopementWife flees from husband. (Cf. P210, T200.)Children leave home because their parents refuse them foodObstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapesFugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flightFugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer fallsPursuers aided by magic weather phenomenonFlight on skis; two on one pairFlight carrying friend (girl) on backFugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.)Ships burned to prevent flightWhale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.)Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the craneFlight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down
Travels with
Hero in disguise of foolish knight, then of black knight, rescues lady. (Cf. R222.)Unknown helper(s) emerge(s) in the last moment and turn(s) out later to be well known. (Cf. R222.)Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.)
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