The soul as a guardian spirit, »fylgja«, »hamingja«, »(spá)dís«.
Show referencesBlue man, Old Norse »blámaðr«.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesInherited gold ring divided between three by selling it and dividing the money.
Show referencesBride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom.
Show referencesKing causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion.
Show referencesTunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber.
Show referencesPrincess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father.
Show referencesLiving king's or nobleman's son as foster-son of his father's friend; considered an honor for the foster-father.
Show referencesSoldier (especially a »landvarnar-maðr« with charge of the defence of the coast and the frontier against freebooters and foreign invasion).
Show referencesPrincess (maiden) abducted.
Show referencesAbduction by rejected sailor.
Show referencesGirl carefully guarded from suitors.
Show referencesWooing by emissary.
Show referencesAmusements at wedding.
Show referencesMaiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying. She usually scorns or even kills her suitors or sets them difficult tasks.
Show referencesDrinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«.
Show referencesChristian hero overthrows heathen idals.
Show referencesWarrior retires into monastery in his old days.
Show referencesStinginess.
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