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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
B15.5.1. Horse with fire-breathing nostrils. Cf. B742. GHrolf 296 ch. 21.
Bl 5.6. Animals with unusual legs or feet.
B15.6.3. Animal with many legs. Cf. A136.1.2.1. Cf. VilhSj 120 ch. 56: »katanansius«
with fourteen legs.
B16. Devastating animals. Cf. H1154; H1161.
B16.1. Devastating domestic animals.
B16.1.4. Devastating swine.
B16.1.4.1. Giant (herd) devastating bcar. OlåfH in FMS V 162; J>i5r I 339-40, II
265-66; HrolfKr 86, 103 ch. 28, 33 (FAS I 88, 105); HålfdE XVII 8-10 (FAS
III 545); Vilm ch. 7, 18; Bevers 215-16 ch. 6.
B16.1.5. Man-eating cattle.
B16.1.5.1. Monster ox (buli, bison, buffalo) killed. Cf. Hl 161.2.1. Hym 19 = MC 85;
ForstUxaf 261 (FMS III 131, Fjlsl 463); SturlSt 637 ch. 22; HjOlv 498-501 ch.
15; Bosa 26-28, 112 ch. 8, 11 (FAS III 210-12); BåråSn 40 ch. 18; FiOrll 125 ff.,
135-38. Cf. GronbechVFO IV 123.
Bl6.2. Devastating wild animals.
Bl 6.2.2. Devastating tiger.
B16.2.2.1. Hostile tiger killed. (y.) OOdd 121 (FAS II 233); VilhSj 24-25 ch. 12.
B16.2.3. Giant lion overcome by hero. (y.) OOdd 119; HrolfG ch. 23-24 in FAS III
146-49 (cf. Detter 50-51 ch. 30-31); Bevers 234-35 ch. 17; RémK 116-17 ch. 22.
B16.2.4. Giant devastating wolf overcome by hero. Cf. G211.5. Ector ch. 9.
B16.2.5. Devastating bear killed. Cf. B44. Vilm 170 ch. 13.
B16.2.6. Devastating elephant killed. t>i6r I 193-96; VilhSj 47-48 ch. 21.
Bl 7. Hostile animals.
Bl7.1. Hostile beasts.
B17.1.2. Hostile dog (hound). Cf. A673; B268.2.1.
B17.1.3. Hostile cattle. OlåfTr ch. 33 in Hkr I 317.
B17.2. Other hostile animals.
Bl7.2.1. Hostile sea-beasts. Laxd ch. 18; seal with human eyes wrecks ship; cf.
D127, E271.1.
B19. Other mythical beasts. Cf. A673; A878.3; A1070 ff.; D199.2.
B19.2. Nectar-yielding cow. Cf. A661.1.0.2.
B19.2.1. The cow Audhumla. Cf. A1245.4.
B19.4. Glowing animals. Hyndl 7, Gylf ch. 34 (49), Skåldsk ch. 44 (35), Vries 256:
Frey’s and Freyjas’s boar, cf. A136.1-2.
B19.5. Horse with golden (or silver) mane. Grm 30; BuggeE 332-33 = Skåldsk ch.
72 (58); Gylf ch. 8 (15); Skåldsk ch. 25 (17): Gullfaxi, Gulltoppr, Silfrintoppr;
VilhSj 19 ch. 9: »gullslitur å tagli hans, faxi og hofum«.
Bl 9.7. The goat Heidrun. Cf. A661.1.0.2.
B20. Beast-men.
B21. Centaur: man-horse.
B21.1. Icelandic man-horse: fingålpt. Cf. B29.5; B57; F531.1.8.6. HjOlv 473 ch. 10,
cf. Skj I 176. Cf. VilhSj 98 ch. 42: Galapin.