Deity cares for favorite individuals.
Show referencesThe Fates.
Show referencesHell. Lower world of torment.
Show referencesDragon spews venom.
Show referencesDragon guards treasure.
Show referencesFight with dragon.
Show referencesFaithful horse refuses to go before its master mounts it, even when already loaded with two chests of gold.
Show referencesGirl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him.
Show referencesPeriodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals.
Show referencesTransformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic writings (runes).
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesFuture revealed in dream.
Show referencesBlood (in dream) as omen of killing.
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 referencesSouls of human beings seen in dream: as »fylgja« or »hamingja«.
Show referencesSoul in form of bear.
Show referencesDwarfs as smiths.
Show referencesDwarfs curse weapons and treasures which they are forced to give (see F451.3.2.1.1), or which the receiver doesn't appreciate.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesUnderground house.
Show referencesExtraordinary sword.
Show referencesSword cuts everything.
Show referencesFear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough.
Show referencesTest: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them of together with the skin.
Show referencesFoolish marriage of old man and young girl.
Show referencesRefusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when only one who knows where it is, is killed.
Show referencesPrisoner escapes by means of wolf which he lures near by smearing honey on the feet.
Show referencesEnemies invited to banquet (visit) and killed.
Show referencesVictim burned in his own house.
Show referencesTreacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed.
Show referencesDisguise with hood dropping low over the face.
Show referencesWoman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor).
Show referencesMan accused of having starved woman to death and taken treasure.
Show referencesTreacherous counselor.
Show referencesVow to wed no man who cannot perform certain feat.
Show referencesCovenant confirmed by marriage.
Show referencesThree fates, »norns« prophesy at child's birth.
Show referencesFather causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife.
Show referencesKing is angry at hero (Sigurðr) who rides straight into the castle without permission.
Show referencesOld king attacked.
Show referencesMother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot.
Show referencesBrother chosen rather than husband or son. Only one can be saved; he alone is irreplaceable.
Show referencesFoster-father as constant helper.
Show referencesSworn brethren.
Show referencesThreat of hanging.
Show referencesPunishment: stoning to death (usually because of witchcraft since witches and magicians are supposed to be invulnerable to weapons).
Show referencesThrowing into pit of snakes as punishment.
Show referencesPrincess (maiden) rescued from undesired suitor.
Show referencesCruel stepmother.
Show referencesRejected suitor wages war.
Show referencesMarriage by drinking festival, »drekka brúðlaup«.
Show referencesWedding feast.
Show referencesWife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge.
Show referencesWife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves.
Show referencesMaiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying. She usually scorns or even kills her suitors or sets them difficult tasks.
Show referencesWoman advises husband to kill guest: else she will make him chase husband and marry her instead.
Show referencesHorse worship.
Show referencesChristian buried in stone coffin.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesDrinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«.
Show referencesBaptism of heathen.
Show referencesMunificent monarch.
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