μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man falls through ice, has to swim two miles to come out at an air hole.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1737.1

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. *Baughman.
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Filed under Man stays under water for long time.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man under the ice. Falls through ice with his horse, wanders around on the river bottom, pushes his spear through ice from below and rises to the surface

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