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Motifs
- Fairy minstrel. F262.3
- Fairy minstrel's birds sing accompaniment. F262.3.2
- Fairy minstrel's music heard far and wide. F262.3.3
- Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.) F393.1
- Clever minstrel. J1115.5
- Clever minstrel gets a new robe. Has tattered robe mended with scarlet. Ridiculed "I wish the rest of the robe were of the same material". Is given one. J1115.5.1
- To be rewarded by his kind. Unworthy person is rewarded. Asks worthy one: "Why is it that I am rewarded and you are not?" Answer: "Because you have found more of your kind than I have of mine." (Also told of Dante and a minstrel.) J1364
- The minstrel repays the cobbler. The cobbler learns the minstrel's songs and sings them so that the minstrel loses his trade. He in turn sews the cobbler's leather into crazy shapes. He has done no worse than the cobbler, who marred his songs. When they sing together the people realize the contrast and patronize the minstrel. J1632
- Lover masks as minstrel. K1371.4.2
- Disguise as harper (minstrel). K1817.3
- Fairy minstrel asks admission to heaven as reward for playing for saint. (Cf. F262.3.) Q172.0.1
- Princely suitor in minstrel disguise carries princess away. R24.2
- Minstrel throws wife into sea: her tongue the heaviest thing on board. Ordered to throw all heavy articles overboard. T251.1.5