The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.)

Motif

The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z62.1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 906*.
general *Type 313
general *BP II 59, 246, 335, 516ff., III 40
general *Fb "nøgle" II 511b

Within the index

Filed under Proverbial simile.

Filed beside it

"Bridegroom like the sun and bride like the moon."

Travels with

Old chosen rather than new. Fortunate choice

wander