Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, but is at last conquered and married — Mythoi

Motif

Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, but is at last conquered and married.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T311.4

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 292, *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)

Filed beside it

Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.) Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle

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