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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
F833.1.1. Sword so heavy that only its owner can lift it. GHrolf 304, 344 ch. 24, 33.
F833.2. Sword of Damocles. Cf. HjOlv 504 ch. 18.
F833.3. Sword extraordinarily bright, sharp. Cf. D1645.4. Vsp 52 (50, 45); Gylf ch.
4 (3); Ldb ch. 6 = OlåfTr ch. 116 in FMS I 238; ÅnB 326 ch. 1; borstVik 393
ch. 4; HjOlv 504 ch. 18; borst Uxaf 257 (FMS III 123); HringH ch. 3; SålusN
81 ch. 31.
F833.3.1. Sword as mirror. HålfdE XVI 12 (FAS III 543), cf. Schroder’s ed. p. 119.
F833.4. Fiery sword.
F833.4.1. Sword shines as fire or as the sun. Herv 1-6, 92-93 (FAS I 414—15).
F833.5. Sword cuts everything. Reg p. 215 = Vols ch. 15; HaraldHårf ch. 40 in
Hkr I 159: Kvernbitr; Herv 11, 99 (FAS I 425, 426 n.); Nornag 57 ch. 4 (ib. 322,
Flb I 350); OOdd 90-91, 129, 188 (ch. XXVI 8, FAS II 208, 245, 296, 534-35);
borstVik 436 ch. 19; ÅsmK 82, 98 ch. 1, 7 (FAS II 464-65, 483—84); EgÅsm
III 3, XVI 5 (ib. III 368, 401-02); HålfdE XXVI 5 (ib. 556-57); SorlaSt 415, 419
ch. 3, 5; HrolfG 41 ch. 26 (ib. 132): »sem i vatn brygSi«; GFIrolf 323, 354 ch.
30, 36: do.; Bår6Sn 39, 42 ch. 18, 20: do.; Vigk 12 ch. 4: do.; bi3r I 97 ff., II
18, 32, cf. I 97 ff.: Mimungr; Blomst 19, 39 ch. 10, 24; Huld no. 7.
F833.5.1. Sword cuts cloth, etc. as well as Steel and stone. Skåldsk ch. 48 (40) =
MC 267-68.
F833.6. Sword with poisoned edge. Skålda s in Hb 453; OOdd 102 st. 17 (ch. XXX 5,
FAS II 217); HålfdE XVI 12 (FAS III 543); SturlSt 608-09, 614-15 ch. 10, 13;
bérSarH 95-96 ch. 3-4; Amb 146 ch. 28 (27); Bæring 111 ch. 24; Sigb 139 ch. 16.
F833.7. Sword with image of wolf or serpent. HHj 10; bi6r 1 179-80; VilhSj 15 ch. 7;
tJlfU, cf. ZDPh XXVI 24, MC 216.
F833.8. Gigantic sword. SålusN 81 ch. 31: eight elbowlengths long and two spåns
broad.
F834. Extraordinary spear.
F834.2. Spear so broad that its owner by swinging it puts the light out. SigFot 1002.
F835. Extraordinary club.
F835.2. Remarkably large club. Cf. F531.4.5.1.
F835.2.1. Iron club so heavy that five men can hardly lift it. borgr 8 ch. 1.
F836. Extraordinary bow. Cf. Dl092.
F836.2. Hornbows. Herv 153 (FAS I 502); bifir II 230: of the Huns.
F836.3. Extraordinarily large bow. ÅnB 329-30 ch. 3.
F837. Extraordinary battle-axe. Cf. Dl 364.0.2. KetilH 110 ch. 1; Amb 32 ch. 8:
Risanautr; FloresS XVII 4.
F838. Extraordinary knife. Cf. D1317.17. Gullbch. 3; EirikRch. 4(spåkona’s knife);
borstVik 447 ch. 22.
F838.1. Extraordinarily sharp knife. ÅsmK 81-82 ch. 1 (FAS II 464); bi6r I 85-89.
F838.2. Knife with handle half gold and half silver. OOdd 138 (FAS II 259): taken
from shipwrecked.
F839. O ther extraordinary weapons.
F839.1. Gnawed bone as weapon. HrolfKr 66 ch. 23; GHrolf 310-11 ch. 26; BårSSn
32-33 ch. 15; bi6r II 109; Årm ch. 15; Saxo lib. II c. VI 11 = Herrm 163.
F839.2. Extraordinary shield. Cf. F824.2.