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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
H1400-1599. OTHER TESTS
H1400-1449. TESTS OF FEAR
H1400. Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show
fear.
H1405. Fear test: behåring as if enemy is Corning in order to see who mil flee and
who will stay and fight. f>i6r I 366-67; ÅsmFl 173.
Hl407. Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough.
Vols ch. 6-7, cf. Reuschel 108.
H1410. Fear test: staying in frightful place.
H1411. Fear test: staying in haunted house.
H1411.3. Fear test: staying in enchanted castle at night where the devil gives a moral
speech, andprophecies. Yngv 23-24, cf. introd. lxxxiv.
H1418. Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. HålfdBr 562-63 ch. 1-2.
H1450-1499. TESTS OF VIGILANCE
H1460. Test: vigil at tomb.
H1463. Three-night watch over grave to guard man from devil. Gering I 114-17.
H1500-1549. TESTS OF ENDURANCE AND POWER OF SURVIVAL
H1500. Tests of endurance.
H1505. Test: sewing clothes into boy's hånds and tearing them off together with the skin.
Vols ch. 6-7.
H1506. Endurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pit. RagnarL ch. 15 (FAS
I 280-81).
Hl 507. Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds. J?i5r II 194-206.
H1510. Tests of power to survive. Vain attempts to kill hero. Cf. H911; H1211. ÅsmFl
175-76.
H1511. Heat test. Cf. H1542.
H1512. Cold test. Cf. H1541. KetilH 133-34 ch. 5, from the Starkad legends? Cf.
Saxo lib. VI c. VII 7 = Herrm 451.
H1515. Poisoned food test. Saxo lib. II c. IV 2 = Herrm 139.
H1516. Poisoned clothing test. Cf. D1402.5.
H1522. Killing trees threaten hero.
Hl 522.1. Bent tree test. Cf. G314.
H1538. Drowning test. Cf. F696. Hernings fx in Flb III 407-08, cf. LiestølSF 48;
Floam ch. 28; OOdd 150-57 (ch. XXXIX; FAS II 265-70, 544-46); ForstVik
451-53 ch. 23; HjOlv 463 ch. 5; HålfdBr 581 ch. 11; GHrolf 257 ch. 6.
H1540. Contests in endurance. Cf. H1561.
H1541. Contest in enduring cold. Cf. H1512. HrolfKr 76-77 ch. 26 (FAS I 78): trial
before leaving for Sweden.
H1542. Contest in enduring heat. Cf. F610.3.5; H1199.10. Grm p. 76; HrolfKr 77-78,
82-84 ch. 26, 28 (FAS 179, 84-85); ÅsmFl 175-76: walk through fire and swallow
red-hot nails.
Hl 544. Contest in enduring thirst. Skåldsk ch. 55 (44) = HrolfKr 77 ch. 26 (FAS 179).