Medieval Scandinavian Motif Database

Bibliography for: DrJón

Drauma-Jóns saga, ed. H. Gering, Halle 1893 (also in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 26 289-309).

Works with this reference:

D1810.8.

Magic knowledge from dream.

cf. D1812.3.3;
D1813.1;
F1068;
J157.
Laxd LXXVI 20-23;
Þiðr II 393-95 (n.);
DrJón 5 ch. 1 ff.

D1821.3.9.

Magic sight by looking in the hollow of one's hand.

(y.) Bósa 84-85 ch. 6;
Sigþ ch. 30;
Kóngab 13, 16;
cf. DrJón 13.

E714.4.1.

Eaten heart gives one the owner's qualities.

cf. D551.3.
Ys ch. 34;
HrólfKr 69 ch. 23 (FAS I ch. 35); VilhSj 119-20 ch. 56; DrJón 13 ch. 4; Saxo lib. I c. VI 7 = Herrm 101.

K512.2.

Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution.

DrJón 13 ch. 4;
Saxo lib. VII c. I 4 =
Herrm 473;
Schlauch 73.

K522.5.

Escape by shammed burial.

cf. K1864.
NikL 49 ch. 14;
DrJón 13-14 ch. 4.

K2247.

Treacherous lord (earl).

DrJón 12 ff.

N511.1.

Treasure buried by men.

Ys ch. 26;
EiríkR 213 ch. 5;
DrJón 8 ch. 2;
Andr 79, 84;
Saxo lib. V c. II 5.

N531.

Treasure discovered through dream.

cf. J157.
Skarðsárbók, suppl. to Ldb. ed. Íslendinga sögur I 326, Origines Islandicae I 272 ff./
cf. HálfH 76 n.;
ÓláfH ch. 16 in FMS IV 27 =
Óláfs þáttr Geirstaðaálfs ch. 3 in FMS X 212-15;
DrJón 8-10 ch. 2-3.

N532.

Light indicatex hidden treasure.

Eg LXXXV 17-21;
GullÞ 12 ch. 3;
Herv 17-33, 102-13 (FAS I 432-42);
DrJón 8-10 ch. 2-3.

Q113.1.

Appointment to earldom as reward for good advice.

HálfH I 4 (FAS II 25);
Gautr 49 ch. 11 (FAS III 53);
DrJón 21.