μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish mythCross.
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Filed under Rivals in love.

1 finer motif beneath it
The tailor and the smith as rivals. The tailor declares that the smith is blind and the smith declares that the tailor is a fool. At the wedding in church, the smith drops a hot piece of iron into the tailor's boot
Filed beside it
Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and diesThe triangle plot and its solutions. Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same manThree victims of love. Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despairGirl leaves rescuer for younger loverGirl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have goneLover kills his rival brotherMother and daughter as rivals in loveRival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.)Sisters in love with same manFather and son as rivals in loveRival in love killedRivals contesting for the same girlOlder warrior preferred as suitorThree lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir

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