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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
F866.6. Extraordinarily costly drinking horn. Nornag 49 ch. 1 (Flb I 347 = FAS I
315); Helgab in Flb I 360-62 (FMS III 138-41); NikL 61 ch. 16; Saxo lib. VIII
c. XIV 16, cf. Herrm 593-94.
F868. Extraordinary saddle.
F868.1. Golden saddle. Fertram ch. 3-4.
F873. Extraordinary army. Cf. A165.7; D2163.2; G225.5.
F873.0.1. Battie rage. Cf. F1041.8.6.
F874. Horse’s head for extraordinary use. Cf. D1380.3.1. Skj II 16 (Merllnusspå).
F875. Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted
they snap one by one. Cf. F610.6.1 and OlåfH in FMS V 225: iron bands around
knight as penance snap one by one as sign of forgiveness; Gering I 132.
F881. Extraordinary vessel.
F881.1. Extraordinarily large vessel. Cf. F531.4.9.
F883. Extraordinary writings (book, letter). GislaS XXVII 8; Grett LXVI 9-11:
»runar«, cf. D1266.1.
F883.1. Extraordinary book. Cf. D1266. Jofraskinna in Hkr III 510: with golden
letters.
F899. Other extraordinary objects.
F899.1. Extraordinary standard. Cf. D1400.1.16; Q222.6. HaraldH ch. 22 in Hkr III
105; OlåfTr ch. 186 in Flb I 227; cf. RagnarL ch. 19 (20) st. 35 (Skj II 260, FAS
I 297) and Herrm 638.
F899.2. Extraordinary game-board.
F899.2.1. Golden game-board. Cf. D1209.7. Vsp 7-8, 61; Gullt> ch. 14; Sigb ch. 21,46.
F900-1099. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCES
F910. Extraordinary swallowings.
F911. Person swallowed without killing. EirikV 669 ch. 3 = MC 322; FloresS XIX 6-7.
F914. Person swallowed and disgorged. Ib.
F930. Extraordinary occurrences concerning seas or waters.
F931. Extraordinary Occurrence connected with sea. Cf. D2125.
F931.5. Extraordinary ship-wrecking in calm weather. Gautr 12-13 ch. 3 (FAS III
16); FloresS ch. 9; perhaps HålfdE XX 10 (FAS III 550); I>i6r II 163.
F931.8. Sea fettered. OlåfH ch. 7 in Hkr II 8: Stokssund; HaraldH ch. 15 in Hkr
III 97: Bosporus.
F940. Extraordinary underground (undernater) disappearance.
F942. Man sinks into earth.
F942.1. Ground opens and swallows up person. Njåla CL 8-10; BårdSn 40 ch. 18.
F942.1.1. Ground opens to hide fugitive (magician). EirikR 233 ch. 12; OOdd 136 (FAS
II 256); (y.) Bosa 90 ch. 6; ForstVik 390, 421 ch. 3, 15; GHrolf 330, 339, 343-14,
346 ch. 31, 33; SorlaSt 440, 444, 446 ch. 8, 20; HjOlv 471 ch. 8; ÅsmK 82-83
ch. 1; t>orstB 196 ch. 12; t>orlJ 214 and fsl. Fornsogur III (1883) 128 (FMS III
101, Skj I A 143, B 134). Cf. LiestølNT 50.
(F943. Sinking into mud in duel.)
F948. Object sinks into earth.