Flying dragon, »flugdreki«.
Show referencesDragon guards treasure.
Show referencesFight with dragon.
Show referencesAnimals fight together with their master.
Show referencesThe lion blows first life into its cubs three days after their birth.
Show referencesTransformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic sword received from dwarf in dream.
Show referencesMagic game board (chess-board).
Show referencesSacred healing stone.
Show referencesInfallible sword, i.e. is always victorious and bites even iron and stone, etc.
Show referencesMagic invulnerability.
Show referencesMagician appears as swineherd, dwarf, and giant in order to seduce queen and scorns her later in the same shapes.
Show referencesMagician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy.
Show referencesAppearance of dwarf.
Show referencesDwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (esp. to forge weapons).
Show referencesDwarfs as smiths.
Show referencesTrolls are usually ugly, hideous, big, and strong.
Show referencesTrolls as the constant enemies of human beings.
Show referencesHeadless person with eyes (eye) and mouth on breast. Heimslýsing in #Hb# 166;
Show referencesBlue man, Old Norse »blámaðr«.
Show referencesBlack man.
Show referencesGiants and giantesses dressed as human beings.
Show referencesGiant with iron bar as weapon.
Show referencesGiants live in mountains or caves.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesExtraordinary castle (house, palace).
Show referencesFighting and wrestling with witch.
Show referencesGiant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead.
Show referencesDecision of victory by single combat or holmgang between army-leaders.
Show referencesCovenant confirmed by marriage.
Show referencesTwo brothers as contrasts.
Show referencesLiving king's or nobleman's son as foster-son of his father's friend; considered an honor for the foster-father.
Show referencesSworn brethren.
Show referencesCombatants become sworn brethren.
Show referencesKingdom as reward for finding abducted princess.
Show referencesWar prisoners fettered with chains on their feet, bowstrings on their hands.
Show referencesThrowing into pit of snakes as punishment.
Show referencesHero captured by being pressed between shields from all sides: »at honum váru bornir skildir«.
Show referencesPrincess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre, giant).
Show referencesPrincess (maiden) rescued from undesired suitor.
Show referencesRescue of earl's daughter from giant's cave where she is cained to the wall (a pillar).
Show referencesMutilation: cutting off legs (feet).
Show references»Blood-eagle« cut on man's back by flaying and salting.
Show referencesRejected suitor wages war.
Show referencesBrother's consent for sister's marriage needed.
Show referencesTwo or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale.
Show referencesWedding feast.
Show referencesAmusements at wedding.
Show referencesParting gifts after wedding.
Show referencesMaiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying. She usually scorns or even kills her suitors or sets them difficult tasks.
Show referencesConversion to Christianity.
Show referencesFormulistic number: twelve.
Show referencesUnique deadly weapon.
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