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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
Hl 149.2. Task: lifting a certain cat (the Midgard serpent, cf. A876). Gylf ch. 31
(46-47) = MC 93.
H1149.3. Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age). Ib.
Hl 150. Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying.
H1151. Theft as a task.
H1151.7. Task: stealing the two horns of a savage buli. Cf. H1154; H1161. HjOlv
494 ch. 14, cf. SturlSt 616 ch. 14: one horn.
H1151.7.1. Task: stealing gold-filled horn of wild three-horned ox. SigrgFr 80 ch. 10
ff., cf. H933.2.
Hl 151.14. Task: stealing sword from giant. Fidr I 35.
H1151.15. Task: stealing goddess Freyja’s necklace. Sorla 275-76 (FAS I 391-94 ch.
1- 2) = MC 123.
H1151.16. Task: stealing the mead of poetry. Cf. A154.2.
Hl 154. Task: capturing animals.
Hl 154.2. Task: capturing deer from herd watched by giant. Cf. GHrolf 274 ch. 15 =
B101.4.2.
Hl 154.2.1. Task: capturing ninety pigs, ninety horses, and one hundred wild oxen. Cf.
H933.2; H1151.7. SigrgFr 78-79 ch. 9-10.
Hl 161. Task: killing ferocious beast. Cf. B16; H335.3. OOdd 121-24 (FAS II232-34).
Cf. Finnb ch. 7, 11.
H1161.2. Task: overcoming savage buffalo.
H1161.2.1. Task: killing ox, buli. Cf. B16.1.5.1. HjOlv 498 ch. 15.
H1161.3. Task: overcoming elephant. Fidr I 175 ff.
Hl 162. Task: killing certain man. Cf. H335.4. HarS ch. 38, 39.
H1166. Task: duel. Cf. H1561.2; H1562.9. Fidr I 178.
H1166.1. Task: wrestling etc. (i.e. »glima« and »skinndrdttr«) with giant warrior,
»bldmadr«. Cf. F527.3; F610.3.4; G500.1. Svarfd ch. 9; Kjaln ch. 15; Toka
b- Tokasonar in Flb II 135-38 (FMS V 299-303); Finnb ch. 16; OOdd 133
(FAS II 251); HjOlv 501 ch. 16; GunnarK 241.
Hl 173. Task: luring Thor into the power of giants. Cf. M234.2. Skåldsk ch. 27 (18) =
MC 83-84.
H1180. Miscellaneous tasks.
H1187. Task lefl by departing husband for Virgin wife to accomplish: have a son
whose real mother she is, and whose real father he is. Cf. H922. Mågus 3-7 ch.
2- 4 (ch. 5); cf. Kohler-Bolte II 647-51; W. Liungman: Två folkminnesundersok-
ningar, Sthlm. 1925 p. 25 n.
Hl 194. Task: making person laugh. Skåldsk ch. 3 (56), Leyen 37, MC 103, Vries
38: Skadi.
Hl 199. Other tasks. Cf. Hl 562.
Hl 199.5. Task: disenchantment. H933.2.
Hl 199.8. Task: defending oneself alone against fif teen ships, sixty men. OrmSt 532.
H1199.10. Task: jumping over fire. Cf. F684; H221; H1542. EgÅsm XIII 10 (FAS
III 393).
H1199.ll. Task: going to bed with Odin, the underworld’s king. Ib.