Transformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic storm (»gerningahríð«, »galdrahrið«, »kyngiveðr«).
Show referencesOracular ring.
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesMagic grass produces love when girl sleeps on it.
Show referencesGarment proof against all but man's own sword.
Show referencesBad dream as evil omen.
Show referencesEvil eye covered with bag or hide while owner is killed, especially stoned (cf. Q422).
Show referencesStorm produced by magic.
Show referencesGiants live in mountains or caves.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesInvulnerable berserk.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesMen go mad in battle.
Show referencesFighting and wrestling with witch.
Show referencesDecision by single combat or holmgang of who is to marry girl.
Show referencesSingle combat to prove valor.
Show referencesVictim burned in his own house.
Show referencesOld king attacked.
Show referencesFoster-father as constant helper.
Show referencesFaithful servant.
Show referencesWounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house.
Show referencesSoldier (especially a »landvarnar-maðr« with charge of the defence of the coast and the frontier against freebooters and foreign invasion).
Show referencesTournaments.
Show referencesPunishment: stoning to death (usually because of witchcraft since witches and magicians are supposed to be invulnerable to weapons).
Show referencesPrincess rescued from giant's cave where she is fettered to a chair by the hair.
Show referencesRescue from shipwreck.
Show referencesFratricide.
Show referencesMutilated man on horseback chased into the forest.
Show referencesMutilation: putting out eyes.
Show referencesMutilation: tearing off ears.
Show referencesGirl carefully guarded from suitors.
Show referencesKing wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden.
Show referencesRejected suitor's revenge.
Show referencesTwo or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale.
Show referencesWedding feast.
Show referencesParting gifts after wedding.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesOrnaments, weapons, etc. buried with hero.
Show referencesUnique deadly weapon.
Show referencesGiant ogre can be killed only with his own sword.
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