41 motifs match “warriors”  ·  back to the chapters

• Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily. A661.1
• Spring breaks forth at need of demigod's warriors. A941.4.2.1
• Origin of professional warriors. A1658
• Origin of fiana (bands of professional warriors). A1658.1
• Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man. A2261.6
• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Tabu: sex activity for warriors. (Cf. C110.) C566.6
• Magic sign assures that warriors will not flee from battle. (Cf. D1299.1, D1358.2.) D1359.5
• Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
• Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death. E497
• Souls of warriors go to Valhalla. E754.2.0.1
• Fairy warriors sit upon mortals and thus kill them. F364.1
• Transformed fairy warriors disenchanted when attacked. F383.5
• Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. F397
• Helpful spirit warriors dwell in rocks and hills. F450.1.1
• Giants as warriors (in army). F531.6.9
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Amazons. Women warriors. F565.1
• Mad warriors fly up into clouds. (Cf. F1041.16.6.) F1041.8.7
• Extraordinary physical reactions of angry warriors in battle. (Cf. F1041.8.7.) F1041.16.6
• Warriors use teeth after they exhaust weapons. F1084.2
• Test of death by putting burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors. H248.4
• Warriors go towards strong enemy as consequence of own boast. H945.1
• Warriors battle against leader as test of valor. H1561.8
• Person describes approaching bands of warriors without recognizing them. Another (interlocutor) identifies them. J1661.3
• Warriors whitewash weapons thus disguising identity of one of their number who bears white-handled battle-axe. K1839.6
• Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. K2357.15
• Division of warriors hidden in pit on battlefield. Emerge during battle. K2369.2
• Warriors erroneously slay allies in night battle. N349.1
• Warriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burning. N657
• Band of professional warriors. P551.0.1
• Hero drives retreating warriors back into battle. P551.4
• Battle-pen. Warriors fight in circle around leader. P552.1
• Defeated warriors go into the conqueror's service. R74
• Warriors surrender after chief's death. R75.2
• Warriors flee after chief's death. R75.2.1
• Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors. S139.2.2.7
• Eager warriors go through tent wall. Warriors so eager for battle they do not take time to go out of tent door but go through the tent wall. W212.1
• Warriors contend with each other until battle starts. When they agree to engage in battle, they cannot endure to be without combat. W212.2
• Tailors cowards as warriors: go home to their needles. (Cf. W121.) X223
• Warriors identically equipped (brothers). Z210.0.1