Deity cares for favorite individuals.
Show referencesDragon spews venom.
Show referencesFight with dragon.
Show referencesThe bird Gam.
Show referencesTabu: disclosing own identity. A supernatural person must not tell who he is.
Show referencesMagic storm (»gerningahríð«, »galdrahrið«, »kyngiveðr«).
Show referencesMagic shirt.
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesInfallible sword, i.e. is always victorious and bites even iron and stone, etc.
Show referencesMagician.
Show referencesFinns (or Fins or »Bjarmar«) as magicians.
Show referencesMagic invulnerability.
Show referencesSword magically dulled.
Show referencesMagician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy.
Show referencesStorm produced by magic.
Show referencesSoul in form of bear.
Show referencesDwarfs as smiths.
Show referencesTrolls as the constant enemies of human beings.
Show referencesBlack man.
Show referencesGiant with iron bar as weapon.
Show referencesGiant friendly to man.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesPerson hundreds of years old.
Show referencesRemarkably strong man. (Strong John).
Show referencesWarrior of special strength (berserk).
Show referencesInvulnerable berserk.
Show referencesTwelve berserks.
Show referencesFighting with berserks.
Show referencesFighting with twelve berserks (tröll).
Show referencesBerserk killed in combat about maiden.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesUnderground house.
Show referencesSword cuts everything.
Show referencesGround opens to hide fugitive (magician).
Show referencesMen go mad in battle.
Show referencesDecision by single combat or holmgang of who is to marry girl.
Show referencesHolmgang. Single combat on an island.
Show referencesAcquisition and possession of wisdom - miscellaneous.
Show referencesAdvice not to rob women while they are alone, for fear of returning husbands' revenge.
Show referencesDisguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined warrior's face and torn his beard off.
Show referencesHero attacks and kills at night hero who wanted to go to sleep before their fighting.
Show referencesDisguise with hood dropping low over the face.
Show referencesIn return for magic shirt from girl hero is to stay in Ireland for three years. In return he claims her as wife.
Show referencesProphecy: death by horse's head.
Show referencesThe one of two giant brothers who performs the greatest feat and procures the wildest dog elected as king.
Show referencesBerserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincible.
Show referencesHero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain.
Show referencesThree brothers.
Show referencesLiving king's or nobleman's son as foster-son of his father's friend; considered an honor for the foster-father.
Show referencesFaithful foster-brother.
Show referencesSworn brethren.
Show referencesCombatants become sworn brethren.
Show referencesHero stays overnight in peasant's house, to which he accidentally comes, and where he gets advice and direction.
Show referencesSoldier (especially a »landvarnar-maðr« with charge of the defence of the coast and the frontier against freebooters and foreign invasion).
Show references»Publication of slaying«. Heads of slain enemies displayed.
Show referencesGiant gives gold, silver, and weapon as reward for good advice.
Show referencesWar prisoners fettered with chains on their feet, bowstrings on their hands.
Show referencesDefeated warriors go into the conqueror's service.
Show referencesRescue from shipwreck.
Show referencesEscape from ship by jumping into the sea.
Show referencesObstacle flight - Atlanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapes.
Show referencesBoy hidden under skin in order not to be seen and prophesied about.
Show referencesFratricide.
Show referencesMutilation: putting out eyes.
Show referencesMarriage by drinking festival, »drekka brúðlaup«.
Show referencesObjects of worship.
Show referencesWorship of wooden idols, »skurðgoð«, »trémenn«.
Show referencesChristian buried in stone coffin.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesDrinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«.
Show referencesOrnaments, weapons, etc. buried with hero.
Show referencesBaptism of heathen.
Show referencesChristian hero overthrows heathen idals.
Show referencesFormulistic number: three.
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