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584 ch. 13; SturlSt 615-16 ch. 14 (prevented); BårdSn 4, 19 ch. 2, 10; E>i6r I
14-15; f>or5arH 98 ch. 6; ÅsmS 13-14; Hell 15-16, 45 ch. 9, 23; FloresS XXI
22 p. 163; Amb 162-68 ch. 34 (33); HaraldHr 267, 271; AtlaO 15-16 ch. 12;
Stark 6-7, 51 ch. 2, 18; Huld no. 16.
K815. Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed.
K815.12. Boat lured to land with kind words and wrecked in order to take vengeance
on the men. AtlaO 8-9 ch. 7.
K818. Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed.
K818.1. Man killed with sword which he himself is tricked into passing to captured
enemy. Eyrb ch. 32; Grett ch. 86; GislaS ch. 28 (XXVII 11-15), cf. Prinz 118;
ÅnB 352 ch. 6; I>i5r I 308-15 (Mlmir). Cf. t-orstUxaf 254 (FMS III 118, Fjfsl
450); Hrafns J). HrdtfirSings in FMS VI112 (Fjfsl 136); Amb 72 ch. 13: Ambåles
is supposed to act in the same way.
K818.2. Giantess killed with the spear she herself has given hero. Cf. G519.2. SturlSt
622 ch. 16.
K824. Sham doctor kills his patients.
K824.1. Sham doctor kills ogre (giant). KetilH 115-16 ch. 2.
K832. Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed. Cf. HrolfG 50-51 ch. 30-31
(FAS III 146-49).
K839. Victim enticed - miscellaneous.
K839.3. Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard.
Cf. K337. t»i3r II 264 (-66).
K850. Fatal deceptive game. Cf. E494; Kl 626.2: ball-game.
K852. Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. Cf. M341.2.23;
N334.2.
K853. Fatal game: drowning. Cf. H1538; N339.1.
K863. Shooting game: blind man’s arrow aimed. It kills his friend (Balder’s death).
Gylf ch. 33 (49), cf. S73.1.
K867. Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game.
K867.1. Deceptive sword-game: brother killed. I?i6r II 43-47: for scorning.
K870. Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). Cf. K776
K873. Fatal deception by giving narcotic.
K873.1. King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife. Ulfh ch. 1.
K873.2. Groom murdered while watchmen and bride are brought to sleep by music.
SigrgV 154 ch. 13.
K890. Dupe tricked into killing himself.
K891. Dupe tricked into jumping to his death. Cf. K651.
K910. Murder by strategy. Vols ch. 1 and Nornag 68-69 ch. 8 (Flb I 355 = FAS I
332): Sigurør; Nitida ch. 3: importunate suitors.
K911. Feigning death to kill enemy. Cf. Gisis ]?. Illugasonar in FMS VII 30 (Fjfsl
65): feigning illness to kill enemy, cf. K523.
K911.4. Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave. Amb 38 ch. 8.
K912. Kobbers’ {giants’) heads cut off one by one as they enter house. Cf. G262. Cf.
Skålda s. in FMS III 74-75; Saxo lib. I c. VIII 17; OlåfH ch. 137 in FMS IV
339; Hard ch. 22.