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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
C430. Name tabu. Prohibition against uttering the name of a person or thing. Cf.
E388. HjOlv 507 ch. 20. Cf. J. Sahlgren in Saga och Sed, Upps. 1940, 48-50;
Hertz in his edition of Wolfram v. Eschenbach’s Parzival, Stuttg. 1898, 543 n. 230.
C432. Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature.
C432.1. Guessing name of supernatural creature gives power over him. VilhSj 57-68
ch. 24-27, cf. 22 ch. 10; UlfU 784, 786 ch. 3^1, cf. ZDPh XXVI 5-7, 24.
C436. Tabu: disclosing own identity. A supernatural person must not tell who he is.
VilhSj 12 ch. 6. Nor do the heroes of the Fornaldarsagas like to tell their name,
e.g. OOdd 18, 159 (ch. XL 9); GHrolf 269-71 ch. 12-13; HålfdE XIII 3 (FAS
III 537); (y.) Bosa 88 ch. 6; Ficir I 316-17, II 4-11, 347-51. Cf. Hess. Blatter f.
Volksk. XXXIX 57; Jahrb. f. Volksliedforschung 1934, 1 ff.; Vald 56 ch. 1; cf.
Fåfn in BuggeE 219, Trolldom 145; Vries 48; Kersbergen 144.
C490. Other speaking tabus. Cf. C854.
C493. Tabu: thanking. Cf. ÅnB 332 ch. 3; GHrolf 265 ch. 9.
C500-599. TABU: TOUCHING
C530. Tabu: touching (miscellaneous).
C542. Tabu: touching treasures of otherworld. Saxo lib. VIII c. XIV 13-16 = Herrm
589; MC 321.
C600-699. UNIQUE PROHIBITIONS AND COMPULSIONS
C610. The one forbidden place.
C612. Forbidden forest. Fær ch. 11-12.
C617. Forbidden country. Cf. 6låfPI ch. 121 in Hkr II 262-63; H. Ellekilde in Da.
Studier 1929, 10 ff.: admission to the territory of supernatural king forbidden to
other kings.
C650. The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes.
(Sometimes one is under magic compulsion). Cf. D2034. Cf. Ålafl IV 2-3.
C700-899. MISCELLANEOUS TABUS
C710. Tabus connected with otherworld journeys. Herrm 586, 589 = C211, C250,
C400, C542.
C720. Tabu: attending toilet needs.
C722. Tabu: cutting hair.
C722.1. Tabu: cutting hair during certain time. Cf. M121.
C726. Tabu: trimming fingernails. Cf. Gylf ch. 37 (51).
C726.1. Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings. Cf. Vries 35 ad motif F841.1.5.
C750. Time tabus.
C762. Tabu: doing thing too often.
C762.2. Tabu: too much weeping for dead. Cf. E361.
C766. Eating after one is satisfied.
C766.1. Tabu: killing more cattle than one can eat. Saxo lib. VIII c. XIV 4 = Herrm
586, MC 321.
C830. Unclassified tabus.