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Motifs
- Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged. F150.3
- Shield hung on pole in front of otherworld palace as signal that adventurer must fight with owner. F150.3.1
- Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. F151.0.1
- Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence. K1784.2
- Adventurer poses as son of dead king. K1952.4.1
- Twin adventurers. T685.1
- Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother. Z210.1