Hell. Lower world of torment.
Show referencesFlying dragon, »flugdreki«.
Show referencesFight with dragon.
Show referencesFaithful animal doesn't allow anybody to come near to master's corpse.
Show referencesUnusual animal as riding-horse.
Show referencesAnimals fight together with their master.
Show referencesTabu: disclosing own identity. A supernatural person must not tell who he is.
Show referencesLance sounds when knocked on shield, except when its owner will be defeated.
Show referencesInfallible sword, i.e. is always victorious and bites even iron and stone, etc.
Show referencesBad dream as evil omen.
Show referencesThe soul as a guardian spirit, »fylgja«, »hamingja«, »(spá)dís«.
Show referencesOffspring of fairy and mortal.
Show referencesAppearance of dwarf.
Show referencesDwarfs as smiths.
Show referencesBurial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfs.
Show referencesGiant with iron bar as weapon.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesPerson hundreds of years old.
Show referencesRemarkably strong man. (Strong John).
Show referencesWarrior of special strength (berserk).
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesUnderground house.
Show referencesExtraordinary sword.
Show referencesSword cuts everything.
Show referencesAngry warrior's breath makes adversary's armor so hot that he must surrender.
Show referencesAngry chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him.
Show referencesHero kills witch.
Show referencesFighting and wrestling with witch.
Show referencesAttention drawn by gold and silver decorated mouse: as princess turns after it, suitor recognizes her.
Show referencesDecision of victory by single combat or holmgang between army-leaders.
Show referencesWitch's test by pulling burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors.
Show referencesWoman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers.
Show referencesWarriors go towards strong enemy as consequence of own boast.
Show referencesFear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight.
Show referencesHero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds.
Show referencesFriends refuse to fight against each others.
Show referencesSingle combat to prove valor.
Show referencesHolmgang. Single combat on an island.
Show referencesFight with father's old friend though only to mention who he is would assure the youth a friendly reception.
Show referencesWisdom (knowledge) from dream.
Show referencesAcquisition and possession of wisdom - miscellaneous.
Show referencesMan slays another in order not to be slain himself.
Show referencesLiteral pleading: letter of law has been met.
Show referencesFright at noise of mill.
Show referencesEnemies invited to banquet (visit) and killed.
Show referencesVictim burned in his own house.
Show referencesMan killed with sword which he himself is tricked into passing to captured enemy.
Show referencesVictim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard.
Show referencesKing (Ermanrikr) lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews.
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 referencesHusband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse, after having made her drunk.
Show referencesEarl killed in combat with man he has undertaken to kill.
Show referencesFeigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk.
Show referencesDisguise with hood dropping low over the face.
Show referencesDisguise by cutting one eye out.
Show referencesService in disguise in order to seduce king's daughter by putting love charm in her food.
Show referencesFalse tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice.
Show referencesWoman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor).
Show referencesWarrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary. Not supposed to have been able to do it if latter was awake.
Show referencesTreacherous officere and tradesmen.
Show referencesTreacherous counselor.
Show referencesEnemy induced to give up siege by making it look as the besieged have got reinforcement.
Show referencesHearth abode of unpromising hero.
Show referencesVow never to give more than one blow in a fight and never to beat a fallen enemy nor take his weapons.
Show referencesCovenant confirmed by marriage.
Show referencesAbducted princess wishes that she were with rejected suitor; discovers that she is.
Show referencesSecret about prince's father learned by eavesdropper from his mother's talking to him.
Show referencesOld king attacked.
Show referencesQueen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first husband.
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 referencesFoster-father as constant helper.
Show referencesFaithful foster-brother.
Show referencesSworn brethren.
Show referencesCombatants become sworn brethren.
Show referencesFaithful servant.
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 referencesTournaments.
Show referencesOne third of kingdom and the king's daughter as reward for getting victory-stone during the night.
Show referencesAdultery punished.
Show referencesThreat of hanging.
Show referencesThrowing into pit of snakes as punishment.
Show referencesWarrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers.
Show referencesPrincess (maiden) abducted.
Show referencesAbduction by rejected sailor.
Show referencesDefeated enemy holds rank and country when he promises to pay tax to conqueror.
Show referencesWarriors fiee after their chief's death.
Show referencesRescue from shipwreck.
Show referencesCruel stepmother.
Show referencesFratricide.
Show referencesPrisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged.
Show referencesMurder by cutting adversary in two.
Show referencesMurder by slamming down chest-lid. Done while victim is looking into the chest.
Show referencesMutilation: cutting off hands (arms).
Show referencesMutilation: cutting off legs (feet).
Show referencesMutilation: putting out eyes.
Show referencesLove-sickness.
Show referencesLover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (father's) house, defiant of the danger.
Show referencesGirl carefully guarded from suitors.
Show referencesKing likes his daughter so much that he does not want to marry her to anyone.
Show referencesWooing by emissary.
Show referencesWooing emissary admitted to woman's room.
Show referencesWooing the strong and beautiful bride.
Show referencesEarl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo.
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 referencesHero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear.
Show referencesDrinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«.
Show referencesConversion to Christianity.
Show referencesConversion to Christianity through miracle: usually because the adversary's god turns out to be the stronger.
Show referencesWarrior retires into monastery in his old days.
Show referencesMunificent monarch.
Show referencesGenerosity toward enemy.
Show referencesStinginess.
Show referencesFormulistic number: three.
Show referencesFormulistic number: twelve.
Show referencesLion as symbol of courage.
Show referencesUnique deadly weapon.
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