ATU 221B Test: who can Go Deepest in Earth The birds agree that whichever of them can go deepest in the earth will be their king

ATU 221B

Test: who can Go Deepest in Earth The birds agree that whichever of them can go deepest in the earth will be their king

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Owl as watchman goes to sleep: does not see by day. He is placed as watchman of wren who is imprisoned in a mousehole. (Cf. A2332.6.6.) 1 variant
Contest: who can go deepest into the earth? Wren goes into mouse hole. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.