Deity cares for favorite individuals.
Show referencesThe Fates.
Show referencesHell. Lower world of torment.
Show referencesAnimals fight together with their master.
Show referencesEaten meat of bear-lover causes (unborn) son to have bear characteristics.
Show referencesMagic object taken from barrow.
Show referencesMagic storm (»gerningahríð«, »galdrahrið«, »kyngiveðr«).
Show referencesMagic writings (runes).
Show referencesMagician.
Show referencesBad dream as evil omen.
Show referencesEvil eye covered with bag or hide while owner is killed, especially stoned (cf. Q422).
Show referencesMagician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy.
Show referencesThe soul as a guardian spirit, »fylgja«, »hamingja«, »(spá)dís«.
Show referencesLife-token: earth, water, or blood in footprint. Earth: dead by disease; water: drowned; blood: killed in battle.
Show referencesOffspring of fairy and mortal.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesRemarkably strong man. (Strong John).
Show referencesWarrior of special strength (berserk).
Show referencesInvulnerable berserk.
Show referencesTwelve berserks.
Show referencesFighting with twelve berserks (tröll).
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesUnderground house.
Show referencesExtraordinary ring.
Show referencesHero kills witch.
Show referencesIdentification by ring.
Show referencesTest of strength: lifting stone (fireplace, etc.).
Show referencesFoolish marriage of old man and young girl.
Show referencesEnemies invited to banquet (visit) and killed.
Show referencesVictim burned in his own house.
Show referencesImportunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into sack and returned to his men.
Show referencesHusband's twin brother mistaken by woman (and people) for her husband (and for the king).
Show referencesQueen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi).
Show referencesTreacherous king participates first in battle when he sees who is likely to win.
Show referencesOld woman, »völva«, as prophet.
Show referencesLucky person. Some people, especially heroes, as Hrólf Kráki and Óláfr, usually have luck.
Show referencesOld king attacked.
Show referencesMother lets daughter unwittingly marry own father in order to revenge his raping.
Show referencesDaughter marries her husband's slayer in order to save her old father from war.
Show referencesTwo brothers as contrasts.
Show referencesThree brothers.
Show referencesFoster-father as constant helper.
Show referencesHospitality for a whole winter (by king or nobleman usual in old Scandinavia).
Show referencesFaithful servant.
Show referencesWounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house.
Show referencesHero stays overnight in peasant's house, to which he accidentally comes, and where he gets advice and direction.
Show referencesObstacle flight - Atlanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapes.
Show referencesCruel stepmother.
Show referencesMutilation: putting out eyes.
Show referencesHorses mutilated: tails cut off and manes torn off with the skin in ordder to humiliate their owner.
Show referencesLove-sickness.
Show referencesWooing by emissary.
Show referencesMarriage by drinking festival, »drekka brúðlaup«.
Show referencesReligious services, »blót«.
Show referencesObjects of worship.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesOrnaments, weapons, etc. buried with hero.
Show referencesMunificent monarch.
Show referencesBravery.
Show referencesStinginess.
Show referencesFormulistic number: twelve.
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