Society

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• Royalty and nobility. P0
• Issue of marriage of brother and sister of highest chiefly rank is a god. P3
• Kings. P10
• Special place where occur births of royalty. P10.1
• Choice of kings. P11
• Prophecy that brother who first kisses saint will be king. P11.0.1
• Choice of king of trees. P11.0.2
• Bramble chosen king of trees. P11.0.2.1
• Choice of kings by divine will. P11.1
• Kings chosen by lot. P11.1.1
• Winner of contest to be king. P11.2
• King chosen by contest: princes finding greatest fault with their father. Youngest can find no fault and is chosen. P11.2.1
• King chosen by contest. P11.2.2
• The one of two giant brothers who performs the greatest feat and procures the wildest dog elected as king. P11.2.2.1
• The one of two giant brothers who gets the most skillful princess elected as king. P11.2.3
• Owner of magic object chosen as king. P11.3
• King chosen on basis of strength and exploits. P11.4
• He who can open palace door to be king. P11.4.1
• Amasser of largest fortune to be king. P11.4.2
• He who can fill out a certain wide seat chosen as king. P11.5
• Inauguration of king as espousal to goddess. P11.6
• Character of kings. P12
• Hunting a madness of kings. P12.1
• Injustice deadliest of monarch's sins. P12.2
• Tyrannical king. P12.2.1
• Usurper imposes burdensome taxes. P12.3
• King who intends rape killed. Attackers flee into exile. P12.4
• Good king never retreats in battle. P12.5
• Dead king carried into battle in his war-chariot. P12.5.0.1
• King in battle hides in ditch, with earth piled around him. P12.5.1
• Just king brings good fortune upon people. P12.6
• Four duties of king to subjects: devotion, protection of subjects, justice, and increase of his kingdom. P12.6.1
• Clever king knows everything in advance. P12.7
• King banishes nobleman whose castle he wants. P12.8
• Nobility of character a mark of kings. Kings overcomes passion for beautiful captives and sends them back untouched to their people. P12.9
• King is superior to all in strength, beauty, largeness, etc., and usually has victory. P12.10
• Uxorious king neglects duties. P12.11
• King avenges lack of homage. P12.12
• King quick to anger. P12.13
• King to be seen after anger cools. P12.13.1
• Modesty of king. P12.14
• Customs connected with kings. P13
• Privileges of under-king. P13.0.1
• Duties of under-king's retainers. P13.0.2
• King cannot judge without crown. P13.1
• Mismanagement of king's treasury a mortal offense. P13.2
• Royal purple (golden diadem) worn as sign of royalty. P13.3
• Kingly insignia worn only on field of battle. P13.3.1
• Ring can make or unmake a king. P13.3.2
• King must marry. P13.4
• Crowning of kings. P13.5
• Anointing of kings. P13.5.1
• Custom to appoint a king by day and slay him at night. P13.6
• Royal anniversaries. P13.7
• King must never be present at funeral. P13.8
• Royal perquisites. P13.9
• King has first choice in booty. P13.9.1
• Fifth of the land's production belongs to king. P13.9.2
• Particular practices of kings. P14
• Prisoners released as celebration of king's success. P14.1
• King will not permit a one-eyed man in his presence. P14.2
• King playing chess when important news arrives. P14.3
• King orders all gold brought to him. P14.4
• King never touches earth: carried always by slaves. P14.5
• King's (prince's) sulking chamber. He sulks here until his wishes are carried out. P14.6
• None permitted to enter hall of king unless he possesses an art. P14.7
• King does not want men who are unable to engage in any sport. P14.8
• King asks all newcomers what they can do and expects a prompt answer. P14.8.1
• Law that nobody may give the king bad tidings. P14.9
• Kings have seat on hills. P14.10
• King angry at hero who rides straight into the castle without permission. P14.11
• King has his own gifts stolen back for him. P14.12
• King gives his own wife as reward. P14.13
• King requires everyone who comes before him to tell a story. P14.14
• King has champion to enforce respect. P14.15
• Old, wise counsellor of court. P14.15.1
• Court messenger. P14.15.2
• Threefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinking. P14.16
• King's stronghold on island. P14.17
• King orders man whose neck the rope will fit to be executed. P14.18
• King goes in disguise at night to observe his subjects. P14.19
• Tom-tom beater to spread the news of kingship. P14.20
• King shows himself in public only one day a year. P14.21
• King keeps lions as pets and a lion-tamer at his palace. P14.22
• King does not eat much during years of famine in order not to forget the hungry. P14.23
• Adventures of kings. P15
• Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) P15.1
• Disguised king taught courtesy by peasant. P15.1.1
• King pardons person who has made mistake of addressing one of his courtiers as king. P15.1.2
• King demands subject's wife for himself. P15.2
• King carries off subject's wife and makes her his own. P15.2.1
• King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.) P15.3
• King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised. P15.4
• King frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassin. P15.5
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes. P15.6
• King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. P15.7
• Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor. P15.8
• End of king's reign. P16
• King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd). P16.1
• King on retiring orders funeral obsequies given him. P16.1.1
• King learning of queen's adultery abdicates. P16.1.2
• The higher the office held in this world, the heavier the judgment of God: Cuchulinn's reason for abjuring kingship. P16.1.3
• Father abdicates in favor of son. P16.1.4
• King must resign if maimed (disfigured). P16.2
• King must resign if he begets natural son. P16.2.1
• King killed when old. P16.3
• King commits suicide. P16.3.0.1
• Old king attacked. P16.3.1
• Attempt to kill old king by suffocating him in bathroom. P16.3.1.1
• King too old to fight goes himself into his grave mound. P16.3.2
• Persons buried with dead king. P16.4
• Suttee. Wife burned with dead king. P16.4.1
• Shavings of spear which killed king cast into cataract. P16.5
• Kings worshipped after their death. P16.6
• King slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his father. P16.7
• Land where every raja dies; if he rules for a day he dies that night; if he rules for a night, he dies that day. P16.8
• King's coffin sunk into river. P16.9
• Succession to the throne. P17
• No sons left to rule after father. Lawmaker's sons slain in rebellion against him. P17.0.1
• Son succeeds father as king. P17.0.2
• At son's wedding king names him as successor. P17.0.2.1
• Vengeance for destruction of fairy-mound pursues king's descendants. P17.0.3
• First man to arrive after king's death to be heir. (Cf. N683.) P17.1
• Queen chosen to live rather than king so that she can bear an heir to the throne. Serpents alleged to tell by their death which shall die first: male serpent predicts king's death; female, queen's. King has male serpent killed. P17.2
• Dying king names successor. P17.3
• Second-born son declared as successor because message about the birth of first son was slower traveling. Emperor will not change proclamation. P17.3.1
• Kingship rotates among brothers. P17.4
• Brothers rule jointly. P17.5
• Succession by mother-right. P17.6
• Succession will fall to line that has been wronged. P17.7
• Kingship given to younger brother. (Cf. P17.10.) P17.8
• Natural son succeeds to the throne. P17.9
• Natural son is refused kingship and half heritage. P17.9.1
• Three sons each get a kingship, but the youngest the most important in the home country. (Cf. P17.8.) P17.10
• Slayer of king marries widow and inherits kingdom. P17.11
• King to be succeeded by whoever can carry his dead body a certain distance. P17.12
• What the princes most desire: king asks each of three sons separately. Answers: to study, to make pilgrimages, to build a great kingdom. Last chosen. P17.13
• Marriage of kings. P18
• After highly mourned wife's death the king marries another who turns out to be an evil witch. P18.1
• Limited number of wives for polygamous king. P18.2
• Other motifs connected with kings. P19
• King's presence necessary for army's victory. P19.1
• King may have any woman as paramour if he makes her a settlement. P19.2
• King abducts woman to be his paramour. P19.2.1
• King must procure whatever visiting poets ask, or suffer from their satire. P19.3
• Kingly powers (rights). P19.4
• King's wand (rod). P19.4.0.1
• King may judge against all save one of highest rank in religion or learning. P19.4.1
• King raised from dead (by saint). P19.5
• Queens. P20
• Clever queen. P20.1
• Queen intervenes for condemned courtiers. P21
• Queen as intercessor with king. P21.1
• Queen marries murderer of her fiancée. P22
• Queen leaves country with her son, having killed her husband in revenge for his killing of her father and brother. P22.1
• Queen persuades king to make war without cause that her sons may have territory. P23
• Queen persuades husband to riot against his superior. P23.1
• Queen persuades husband to claim her father's kingdom after his death. P23.2
• Queen persuades husband to avenge her father. P23.3
• Queen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first husband. (Cf. S12.3.) P23.4
• Queen must pay tribute to victorious queen to the amount paid by king to victorious king. P24
• Queen meddles in state affairs. P25
• Captured queen commits suicide. (Cf. P16.3.0.1.) P26
• Queen commits suicide, as her husband vanquishes and kills her father and her brother. P26.1
• Grief at queen's death. P27
• King sits mourning on his wife's grave mound. P27.1
• King mourns so much at wife's death that he goes on piracy, (every summer afterward). P27.2
• King calls daughter in second marriage by the name of his first queen. P27.3
• Marriage of queen. P28
• Chieftainess of such rank that none of her countrymen can woo her. P28.1
• Queens – miscellaneous. P29
• No king to rule who is not husband of certain queen. P29.1
• Queen commits adultery with husband's foster son. P29.2
• Queen (princess) pours liquor for battle champions. P29.3
• Princes. P30
• King's sons called kings. P30.1
• Prince must learn a trade. (Cf. P51.) P31
• Princes as smiths. P31.1
• Friendship of prince and commoner. P32
• All children born in realm on same day as chief's son are brought to palace to be the boy's companions. P32.1
• Prince imprisoned as hostage for safety from king. P34
• Unknown prince chosen chief of children in play. P35
• Dispossessed prince taunted by usurper's son. P36
• Birth rites confer royalty on infant prince. P37
• Prince forfeits father's and God's blessing if he fails to claim throne. P38
• Princesses. P40
• Princess cannot be married to someone of low caste, though he passes suitor test. P41
• Great warrior destroyed by king when he asks for princess in marriage. P41.1
• Noblemen (knights). P50
• King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king. P50.0.1
• King demands open gate to vassals' castle (city). P50.0.1.1
• Earl. P50.1
• Earl's name preferred to king's. P50.1.1
• Marshall. P50.2
• Noble person saves self from difficulties by knowledge of a trade. (Cf. P31.) P51
• Knight jousts with all comers. (Cf. P561.) P52
• Knight's duty to perform as lady bids. P52.1
• Wild man of noble birth. (Cf. F567.) P55
• Noble (gentle) ladies. P60
• Noble woman given to foreigners on condition that thereafter their land be held by female right. P61