Respite ruse. Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished

Motif

Respite ruse. Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished.

Sex. · Marriage. · Happenings at weddings. · view the constellation · filed as T151.0.1

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Year's respite from unwelcome marriage.

Filed beside it

Father giving away daughter makes condition: son-in-law not to see daughter as his wife during one year Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage Other respites from unwelcome marriage (three months, two years, etc.)

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