μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general *Type 519
Within the index

Filed under Wooing.

Filed beside it
Girl carefully guarded from suitorsKing likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyoneMythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)Wooing by emissaryBride purchasedMatchmakersChoosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.)Girl as wooer. Forthputting womanMeans of attracting sweetheartDeclaration of loveBetrothalPrincess to marry first man who asks for herPrincess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.)King seeks bride only because counsellors insistBetrothal restrictionsHelp in wooing. (Cf. B582.)
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