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Motif

Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161.)

Sex. · Love. · Love – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T91.6.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "jardinier"
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 348ff.
  • general *Type 314
  • general *Boje 74ff.
  • general Penzer V 250, VIII 115ff.
  • general Krappe "The Legends of Amicus and Amelius and of King Horn" Leuvensche Bijdragen XVI (1924) 14–17
Within the index

Filed under Noble and lowly in love.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave Princess runs away with hunchback
Filed beside it
Lowly person falls in love with king (queen) King (prince) in love with a lowly girl. (Cf. L162, T121.8.) Prince falls in love with minister's daughter
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Lowly hero marries princess
Carried in tale types

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