Wooing the strong and beautiful bride — Mythoi

Motif

Wooing the strong and beautiful bride.

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T58

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg.
general *Type 519

Within the index

Filed under Wooing.

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.) Wooing by emissary 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 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.)

Carried in tale types

The Strong Woman as Bride (Brunhilde) · ATU 519 4 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “beautiful” · wander