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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
HrolfKr 27-28, 54 ch. 9, 20 (FAS I ch. 12, 28); Herv 147 (ib. 496; Skj II A 254);
RagnarS ch. 5 (ib. 358); HålfH X 1 (cf. 3), XVI st. 68 (ib. II35,56); OOdd 9 (ch.
I 18; FAS II 506); ÅnB 327 ch. 1; HjOlv 459 ch. 4; HålfdBr 568 ch. 4; EgÅsm
VI 2, 6, IX (FAS III 374, 375, 382), cf. Lagerholm 41 n.; BårdSn 1, 19 ch. 1, 10;
FordarHr 96 ch. 4; f>idr I 32, 73-74, 133-34, II 84, 323; OrmSt 521; t-orstUxaf
256 (FMS III 120; Fjfsl 452); FloresS XXI 12; Kirial 92; NikL 4 ch. 1; HringT
9-11; KåraK 56 ch. 28; Stark 5, 8 ch. 1,3; Herrm 69; thirteen years old: HålfH
IX 3 (FAS II 35); BårdSn 2 ch. 1; FloresS XXII 15; fourteen years old: Bosa
7-8, 78-80 ch. 3, 4 (FAS III 196-97); Kirial 92; Villif 4-5 ch. 3; fifteen years
old: HHu I 10; F16am ch. 6, 9, 12; Hromundar lp. halta 312 ch. 5 in IslF; Vols
ch. 8 (BuggeE 180); Sogubr 13 ch. 4 (FAS I 374); RagnarL 119, 196 ch. 3 (2)
st. 1 (ib. I 240; Skj IIB 251); OOdd 9 (ch. 118; FAS II 506); ForstVik 388 ch. 2;
SorlaSt 409, 428 ch. 1, 11; HjOlv 454 ch. 1; I>i6r I 74; ÅsmVik 9, 40 ch. 5, 20;
VilhSj 5 ch. 2; SigrgV ch. 19; ÅsmS 5b-v; FloresS XX 5 p. 154; Villif 21 ch.
12; SamsF ch. 18; FjJon 1 ch. 1; Andr 2; Saxo lib. I c. III 1, lib. VII c. X 11 =
Herrm 69; sixteen years old: Floam ch. 12; Villif 4-5 ch. 3; GunnarK 242;
ParmesL 4 ch. 2; Sagan af Marsilius og Rosamundu, 1885, 4 ch. 2; eighteen years
old: Floam ch. 2; ÅnB 327 ch. 2; Dåm 54 ch. 3; nineteen years old: Ulf 137;
twenty years old: ParmesL 4-5 ch. 2-3; Vigk ch. 2.
F611.3.3. Strong hero tests weapon. Cf. F610.8. Svarfd ch. 2; OOdd 148-51 (ch.
XXXVIII, FAS II 264, 543); SturlSt 606 ch. 9; ÅsmFl 172; ÅsmK 81-82 ch. 1
(FAS II 464-65); Saxo lib. IV c. IV 6, cf. Herrm 305.
F611.3.3.2. Strong hero tests scythes: they all break. OrmSt 522 (FMS III 206-07,
Fjfsl 201-02).
F612. Strong hero sent from home.
F612.2. Strong hero kills (overcomes) playmates: sent from home. Bosa 7-8, 78-80
ch. 3, 4 (FAS III 196-97); SigrgFr 43 ch. 1; Kongab 2-6.
F614. Strong man’s labors. Cf. H1562.
F614.1. Strong man drives anvil into ground. Cf. Skåldsk ch. 48 (39) = Vols ch. 15;
Nornag 57 ch. 4 (Flb I 350 = FAS I 322); t>idr I 307 ff.; Flov 129 ch. 6; crushes
anvil and tools as he tests them.
F614.2. Strong man uproots tree and uses it as weapon. Cf. F621. Pidr II 362; Kongab
3-4; KåraK 16 ch. 7; Saxo lib. VII c. II 9, cf. lib. V c. XIII 4 = Herrm 479;
DgF 191, cf. vol. III p. 790-91.
F614.2.2. Strong man uses rafter (»(rota-)kylfa«) as weapon. OrmSt 531-32, cf. A. L.
Binns in Saga-Book of the Viking Soc. XIV 51; Floam ch. 16; thdr I 36, 310, II
272; OOdd 32-33, 98, 112, 184-85, 188-89 (ch. VIII 3, XXIX 6, XLIV 7-9, FAS
II 177 ff., 213 ff., 292, 296, 514, 556); SturlSt 608, 612 ch. 10, 12. Cf. GHrolf
252, 260-61 ch. 6, 8; HjOlv 494, 499 ch. 14, 15.
F614.4. Strong man as rower: breaks boat. Cf. Atlam 37 and Grett ch. 50; breaks
oars; Liestøl Upph 160.
F614.5. Strong man as fisherman: destroys fish and nets. Cf. A876. Hym 7-26 =
Gylf ch. 32 (48); Skåldsk ch. 10 (2); Skj I 4, 129, 131; Thor.
F614.6. Strong man throws trees on roof and breaks it.
F614.6.1. Strong man throws man back and breaks his bones {legs). Hreidars J>. heimska
in Msk 133 (FMS VI 212, Fjfsl 156); SorlaSt 422 ch. 8; Vigk 18 ch. 5; Blomst
39-40 ch. 24.
F621. Strong man: tree-puller. Cf. F614.2. ÅnB 328 ch. 2.
F624. Mighty lifter. Cf. F631; H1562.2. Thor in Hym 21 ff., 27 ff., 34 ff. and Gylf
ch. 31 (46) = MC 93; Magni in Skåldsk ch. 25 (17) = MC 82; Gylf ch. 3 (4);
Grett ch. 50; OrmSt 523-24 (FMS III 210-11); MagnusB = Glsls j>. Illugasonar
in FMS VII 31-32 (Fjfsl 67-68); Finnb ch. 20, 36.