Girl locked up in order to postpone wedding

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Girl locked up in order to postpone wedding.

Captives and fugitives. · Captivity. · Conditions of captivity. · view the constellation · filed as R53.3

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IcelandicGöngu-Hrólfs saga 306.

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Filed under Captivity as refuge for the captive.

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Woman hidden in underground chamber or mud cabin. (Cf. R45.)Woman hidden in sacred place which her lover is not supposed to dare to enter Faithful servant locks his master and his friend up in a little house built from wood from their wrecked ships; they falsely think themselves betrayed

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