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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
B435.1. Helpful fox. Gering I 199.
B450. Helpful birds. Cf. B524; D659.4.4.
B500-599. SERVICES OF HELPFUL ANIMALS
B510. Healing by animals.
B511. Animal as healer.
B511.3. Faithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakes.
GHrolf 306 ch. 25.
B511.5. Birdheals man. Gering I 209: imbibes sickness and spits it out into the sun.
B512. Medicine shown by animal. Vols ch. 8.
B520. Animals save person’s life. Cf. B401; B431.2. GHrolf 313 ch. 27: horse; I ven
V 34, XII 13, XIII 21 ff.: lion.
B521. Animal warns of fatal danger.
B521.3. Animals warn against attack. Cf. B133.1; B143.1.5.
B524. Animal overcomes man's adversary.
B524.2. Animals overcome manis adversary by strategy. Cf. K2351.5.1.
B530. Animals nourish men.
B535. Animal nurse. t>i5r I 303: hind.
B550. Animals carry men.
B551. Animal carries man across water. VilhSj 120 ch. 56: »katanansius«.
B557. Unusual animal as riding-horse. Cf. A136; F989.4. (y.) Bosa 88 ch. 6, SorlaSt
422 ch. 8, Yngv 38, J>i6r I 225, II 282 (cf. 389): elephant; VilhSj 90, 118, 120
ch. 39, 55, 56, Amb, ed. 1886 ch. 28: dromedary; Amb, ed. 1898, 152 ch. 29:
»nomokey«; Ector ch. 5, 8, 9, 12: camel, ch. 20 (11 in GKS): »hyrela-allra dyra
grimmast«; OlåfH ch. 20 in FMS IV 35 (Skj I 190): goat.
B560. Animals advise men. Cf. B122.1.
B562. Animals' advice leads man to wealth.
B563. Animals direct man on journey. Cf. B151.
B563.2. Birds point out road to hero. Ldb ch. 5 = MC 216.
B570. Animals serve men.
B571. Animals perform tasks for man.
B571.3. Animals fight together with their master. Cf. B268; B335; F531.8.2. HrolfKr
60 ch. 23; GHrolf 295 ch. 21 ff.; I>i5r I 185-86; Sigb ch. 19; Ector ch. 11; Kirial
18; VilhSj 25 ch. 12; Mågus 16, 19, 37 ch. 10, 19: horse; VilhSj 25, 33, 45^48,
58 ch. 12,17,21,25: horse and lion; SorlaSt 440-41 ch. 18: lion, cf. B443; HrolfKr
ch. 27, 29 (FAS I 81, 89): hawk; Dam 77-78, 94 ch. 9, 14 (Årnason I 284-85):
hawk and dog.
B575. Animal as constant attendant of man.
B575.1. Wild animals kept as dogs. Cf. A165.2.1.1.1; F531.4.11.2. HålfdE ch. 16-17
(FAS III 542-47): boar; cf. Vilm ch. 7, 18.
B600-699. MARRIAGE OF PERSON TO ANIMAL
B600. Marriage of person to animal. Cf. T465.
B601. Marriage of person to beast.