Wooing by emissary

Motif

Wooing by emissary.

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T51

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

IcelandicHalf saga ok Hálfsrekka 69, *Boberg
Missouri FrenchCarrière
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Schoepperle I 188 n. 3, 202

Within the index

Filed under Wooing.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself King wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden Match arranged by means of pictures of both parties

Filed beside it

Girl carefully guarded from suitors King likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyone Mythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)Bride purchased Matchmakers Choosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.)Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman Means of attracting sweetheart Declaration of love Wooing the strong and beautiful bride Betrothal Princess to marry first man who asks for her Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.)King seeks bride only because counsellors insist Betrothal restrictions Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.)

Travels with

Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.)

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