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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
H41.6. Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will
be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. Vilm 140-
141 ch. 1.
H50. Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.
H51. Recognition by scar. HrolfKr 80 ch. 27 (FAS I 81-82); Ajax 95-97 (= Aame
550).
H56. Recognition by wound. Cf. Kl 872.4.
H57. Recognition by missing member.
H57.2. Recognition by missing finger. ÅsmVik 11, 29-32 ch. 5, 14.
H61. Recognition by ornaments under skin.
H61.3. Recognition by means of ring enclosed in wound. Saxo lib. I c. VIII 13 =
Leyen 36; MC 104.
H62. Recognition of transformed person (animal).
H62.1. Recognition of person transformed to animal.
H62.1.1. Person transformed to animal recognized by his eyes. Skåldsk ch. 27 (18);
Eyrb XVIII 9; Laxd ch. 18; Korm ch. 18; HrolfKr 50 ch. 20; KetilH 116-17
ch. 3; ÅlaflX 2.
H71. Marks of royalty. Cf. H41.
H71.5. Cross between shoulders as sign of royalty (nobility). Sverr ch. 102 in Flb II
636; JarlmH 4 ch. 4.
H71.6. Bright eyes as sign of royalty (nobility). Cf. H1550.1; F541. Rb 35; HHu I
6; Knyti ch. 20; 6låfH ch. 25 in FMS IV 38, cf. Skj I 242; HrolfKr 23 ch. 7;
Vols ch. 13, 23 (22), 30 (28), 41-42 (39-40); GHrolf 264, 292-94 ch. 9, 20; Saxo
lib. II c. II 5, lib. VII c. XI 8.
H71.10. Marvel as sign of royalty. Sverr ch. 13 in FMS VIII 32: fleet carries king
Sverrir and his men, but sinks as soon as he gets off.
H75. Identification by a hair.
H75.4. Recognition by golden hair. Herv 45^16, 123-24 (FAS I 456-58): lock cut off.
H75.5. Identification by wolf's hair. Cf. H82.5.
H79. Recognition by physical attributes - miscellaneous. Cf. Al 650.
H79.3. Recognition by voice. FiSr I 176-77.
H80. Identification by tokens.
H81. Clandestine lover recognized by tokens. Cf. T475.
H81.3. Clandestine visit of lover to queen betrayed by token. Herv 45-46, 123-24,
cf. H75.4.
H82. Identifying tokens sent with messenger. Usually a ring, cf. H94. RagnarL;
RagnarS; Atla6; Hrafns b- Hrutfirdings, see H94; HålfdB 9, 11 ch. 5,7; Forarms
b- Nefjulfssonar in Flb II 90 (FMS IV 176, Fjfsl 347).
H82.2. Marriage tokens identifying lover. Fridbj XI 16 (FAS II 93, 500); ÅsmVik
39 ch. 19-20.
H82.3. Tokens between lovers. HrolfKr 51-59 ch. 20; SturlSt 604 ch. 9; t>i6r II
149-50; SigrgFr 102 ch. 15; VilhSj 42-50 ch. 20-22.
H82.4. Ring sent from husband to wife as token that he has been baptized, and that
she should also be. EgilSiSuH in FMS V 327-28.