Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1966, Side 165

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Hl 550-1569. TESTS OF CHARACTER
H1550. Tests of character.
H1550.1. Bad character shown by the eyes. Cf. H71.6. Njåla I 12: »bjofsaugu«;
GHrolf 269 ch. 12.
H1556. Tests of fidelity.
H1556.2. Test of fidelity through submitting hero to temptations. Cf. Gering I 227-31,
260-66.
H1556.4. Fidelity in love tested.
Hl 556.4.4. O Id uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. Vigl 84-92
ch. 21-22.
Hl 556.5. Test of fidelity by feigning sleep in same bed as calumniated hero or alone
in the forest with him. HrolfG 55-56 ch. 33 (FAS III 157-60); Fri5{jj XII 1-4
(FAS II 95, 501). Cf. Krappe in Modern Language Notes LVI454-56; Schlauch
63.
H1558. Tests offriendship. Cf. P310. SigJors ch. 42 in FMS VII156-59 = Jofraskinna
in Hkr III 510-11: S. and 6ttarr birtingr; OOdd 148-51, 150-57, 170-71 (ch.
XXXVIII 12, XXXIX; FAS II 265-70, 281, 543-46, 552); SturlSt 643-45 ch. 26;
Bosa 12-15, 97-99 ch. 4-5, 8 (FAS III 199-202): friends want to share good and
evil.
H1558.1. Test of friendship: the half-friend. VigaGldmch. 13-15; Gering 1286-87; cf.
G. Cederschiold: Kalfdråpet och vånprofningen, Lund 1890; LiestølSF 33-40 =
Nordiskt Folkminne, Studier t. C. W. von Sydow, Sthlm. 1928, p. 207-14; Deh-
mer 114; Sveinsson in FFC LXXXIII xix.
H1558.3. Test of friendship: to go with one to death. Cf. P310.6. Saxo lib. V c. XI.
Cf. FriObj I 8-9 (FAS II 65, 488-89): friends ask to be buried so near each other
that they can call each other; Weinhold: Altn. Leben 488 ff.; Gering in Grund-
riss 2 III 256; PSASS VII 242.
H1558.8. Friends refuse to fight against each others. Cf. P205. I>i5r II231-32, 232-37,
248-49, 310, 313.
H1558.8.1. Sword too heavy to lift against a friend. HjOlv 477-78 ch. 10.
H1558.9. Pregnant wife left in charge of friend. FloresS V 11-VI 6.
H1558.10. Friendship kept even during sons' jealousy and enmity. Vigl 58-74 ch. 7-16.
H1561. Tests ofvalor. Cf. W33. 6låfTr ch. 90 in FMS I 179 ff. = Jomsv (1879) ch.
52-56, and in FMS XI 147 ff. Cf. Reuschel 63; KetilH 132 ch. 5; f>idr I 204-09,
220, II 201.
H1561.1. Tests of valor: tournament. Cf. P561. RémK 245-64 ch. 50-53; Ector ch.
11, 17-18, 20; SålusN ch. 10; Blomst 48 ch. 27; Kirial 96. Cf. FloresS 174 ch.
XXV.
H1561.2. Single combat to prove valor. Cf. H217-18; H331.2; H1149.3; H1166.
Skåldsk ch. 25 (17): f>orr and Hrungnir, cf. F. R. Schroder in PBB LI 33-35,
H. Schneider and K. Wais in Edda, Skalden, Saga, Festschr. f. F. Genzmer, Heidel-
berg, 1952; Gautr 20-21 ch. 4 (FAS III 23-24); EgÅsm IV 6-12 (ib. 369-70);
SorlaSt 449-50 ch. 25; HålfdB 6-10 ch. 5; t>i6r I 41-43, 134, 160-73, 175-86, II
1-37, 395-97; RémK 65-72 ch. 15-16.
H1561.2.1. Holmgang. Single combat on an island. Cf. F610.3.4.2; H218. Eyrb ch. 8;
BjomHlt ch. 4; Ljosv ch. 16-17; Korm ch. 10 = Skj I 75-83; Ldb ch. 51, 54,
136; Svarfd ch. 9; 6låfTr ch. 264 in FMS III 20 ff., by Odd ch. 17 (11); Herv 2,
5-14, 90, 94-101 (FAS 1412, 417-29); ÅsmK 95-98, 99 st. 7 (FAS II479-84,487);
OOdd 100 (ch. XXIX 14; FAS II 215); KetilH 125 ff. ch. 4, 5; riorstVik 388 ff.,