Dragon spews venom.
Show referencesFight with dragon.
Show referencesUnusual animal as riding-horse.
Show referencesAnimals fight together with their master.
Show referencesTransformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic storm (»gerningahríð«, »galdrahrið«, »kyngiveðr«).
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesFinns (or Fins or »Bjarmar«) as magicians.
Show referencesMagic invulnerability.
Show referencesMagician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy.
Show referencesBlue man, Old Norse »blámaðr«.
Show referencesGiantess steps so heavily during fighting that she sinks into the earth to the knees.
Show referencesGiants live in mountains or caves.
Show referencesGiant slain by man.
Show referencesAmazons. Woman warriors. Icelandic: »skjaldmær«.
Show referencesInvulnerable berserk.
Show referencesBerserk killed in combat about maiden.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesSword cuts everything.
Show referencesGround opens to hide fugitive (magician).
Show referencesFighting and wrestling with witch.
Show referencesSingle combat to prove valor.
Show referencesHero fails to meet the man he seeks, though they are close to one another.
Show referencesCombatants become sworn brethren.
Show referencesThreat of hanging.
Show referencesDefeated warriors go into the conqueror's service.
Show referencesWarriors fiee after their chief's death.
Show referencesUnknown helper(s) emerge(s) in the last moment and turn(s) out later to be well known.
Show referencesEscape from ship by jumping into the sea.
Show referencesMutilation: tearing off ears.
Show referencesGirl carefully guarded from suitors.
Show referencesTwo or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale.
Show referencesAmusements at wedding.
Show referencesBurial in grave-mound.
Show referencesDrinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«.
Show referencesFormulistic number: twelve.
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