Transformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic storm (»gerningahríð«, »galdrahrið«, »kyngiveðr«).
Show referencesOracular ring.
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesMagic grass produces love when girl sleeps on it.
Show referencesGarment proof against all but man's own sword.
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 referencesGiants live in mountains or caves.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesMen go mad in battle.
Show referencesFighting and wrestling with witch.
Show referencesVictim burned in his own house.
Show referencesFoster-father as constant helper.
Show referencesFaithful servant.
Show referencesWounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house.
Show referencesSoldier (especially a »landvarnar-maðr« with charge of the defence of the coast and the frontier against freebooters and foreign invasion).
Show referencesTournaments.
Show referencesPrincess rescued from giant's cave where she is fettered to a chair by the hair.
Show referencesRescue from shipwreck.
Show referencesMutilated man on horseback chased into the forest.
Show referencesMutilation: putting out eyes.
Show referencesMutilation: tearing off ears.
Show referencesGirl carefully guarded from suitors.
Show referencesKing wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden.
Show referencesTwo or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale.
Show referencesWedding feast.
Show referencesParting gifts after wedding.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesUnique deadly weapon.
Show referencesGiant ogre can be killed only with his own sword.
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