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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
K511. Uriah letter changed. Falsified order of execution. A messenger is sent with
a letter ordering the recipient to kill the bearer. On the way the letter is changed
so that the bearer is honored. Cf. K978; K1355; K1851. Amb. 128-32 ch. 24 =
Saxo lib. III c. VI16 = Herrm 262; Schlauch 90.
K512. Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine)
arranges the escape of the latter. f>orstUxaf 252 (FMS III112); Part 21 ff.; Saxo
lib. VII c. I 4; Heinzel 45; Dehmer 111; Schlauch 73, 81.
K512.1. Compassionate executioner: bloody coat. A servant charged with killing the
hero smears the latter’s coat with the biood of an animal as proof of the execution.
Cf. K522. Bevers 212-14 ch. 4; PjJon 27 (17-18) ch. 11. Cf. Saxo lib. VII c. 14-6 =
Herrm 473; Schlauch 73.
K512.2. Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing
the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as
proof of the execution. DrJon 13 ch. 4; Saxo lib. VII c. I 4 = Herrm 473;
Schlauch 73.
K514. Disguise as giri to avoid execution. Cf. ÅnB 359 ch. 7.
K515. Escape by hiding. Cf. K754; K1892.
K515.1. Children hidden to avoid their execution (death). HrolfKr ch. 1-2 (FAS I
3 ff.); HålfdBr 564-67 ch. 3; Mågus 13-19 ch. 8-10, ed. 1858 ch. 17; Saxo lib.
II c. V, lib. VII c. I 4-5 = Herrm 470 ff.
K515.2. Giri escapes by hiding in huge harp. Cf. D1231. Vols ch. 45 (43) = RagnarL
ch. 1; Bosa 48 ch. 3 (FAS III 224).
K515.3. Sleeping persons covered with oxhide and so saved. KetilH 118 ch. 3.
K520. Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution.
K521. Escape by disguise.
K521.1. Escape by dressing in animal (bird, human) skin. Cf. K603. Cf. Saxo lib.
VIII c. X 1-3 = Herrm 569.
K521.1.2. Escape by dressing in bear's skin. Cf. F821.1.3.1. f>i5r 1261-72 (cf. 339-40;
Aarne 590).
K521.2. Change of bodily appearance so as to escape.
K521.2.3. Disguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined
warrior's face and torn his beard off. OOdd 186-89 (FAS II 293-97).
K521.4. Clothes changed so as to escape.
K521.4.1. Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape.
K521.4.1.1. Giri escapes in male disguise. Cf. Kl 837. Cf. Vigl 59 ch. 7.
K521.4.1.3. Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to grinding
corn. HHu I 35, II 2 = HromGr 377 ch. 8.
K521.4.1.4. Man in danger of life takes his wife’s place in the bed with her night-cap
on. VestfjGr 167.
K521.4.3. Escape in humble disguise. Cf. K1815. HålfdE V 14, XXIV 1 (FAS III
525, 554); Bevers 212-14 ch. 4; Amb 80-90 ch. 14.
K522. Escape by shamming death. Cf. Hl 11; K2362. Ldb p. 118 n. ad ch. 276;
OddGlåfTr ch. 21 (15); SamsF ch. 8: garment left, cf. K512.1; K525.5.
K522.5. Escape by shammed burial. Cf. K1864. NikL 49 ch. 14; DrJon 13-14 ch. 4.
K522.6. Escape by shammed drowning: wrecked boat or coffin lands. GislaS ch. 24
(XXIII 14-15); Fostbr ch. 24; cf. R. Prinz: Die Schopfung der Gisla s. Surssonar,
in Veroffentl. d. schleswig-holst. Univ. Ges. XLV, 1935, p. 118; Saxo lib. VI
c. II 7.