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K912.1. Giant’s (giantess’s) head cut off as he (she) looks out. HålfdE XVII2-4 (FAS
III 544); KetilH 115 ch. 2; VilhSj 123 ch. 57; cf. ÅsmFl 172-73; Groenl 266 ch. 8.
K912.2. Men lured into serpent pit one by one and killed. Cf. Sigt 187-88 ch. 30,
Bevers 224-26 ch. 11-14: men cast into serpent pit.
K913. Disguised hero attacks enemy atfeast. EgÅsm XV 1-9; Ålafl XV-XVI.
K913.1. Disguised shipwrecked admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in
revenge for murder. Cf. Kl 831.1. GHrolf 262-65 ch. 9; HålfdE VII-VIII, XIII
(FAS III 528-31, 536-38), and introd. 23-24; Vigl 83 ch. 20.
K914. Murder from ambush. OOdd 94-95, 127 (ch. XXVII 3, FAS II 209, 243, 535)
K917. Treacherous murder during hunt. Cf. Hl 556.2; K959.2. RagnarS 467 ch. 5
(FAS I 359-60); Fidr II 266-68. Cf. Herv 49-50, 126 (FAS I 459-61): pretended
murder during hunt (cf. K525.6.1); and Villif 32-34 ch. 15: failed.
K929. Murder by strategy - miscellaneous.
K929.7. Men deceived into killing each other. Cf. Kl080.
K930. Treacherous murder of enemy’s children. SigrgV ch. 16. Cf. Fidr II 158-79
= H1211.
K940. Deception into killing own family or animals.
K947. King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion. NikL
58-59 ch. 16.
K948. King (Ermanrikr) lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews. Cf.
H1211. Fidr II 158-79.
K950. Various kinds of treacherous murder.
K952. Animal (monster) killed from within.
K952.2. Man transforms self to gadfly to enter giant’s stomach and kill him. Cf. D185.
K955. Murder by burning. Cf. K812; Q414.
K959. Other kinds of treacherous murder. Cf. S60; S110.
K959.2. Murder in one’s sleep. Skåldsk ch. 50, 51 (41, 42); GislaS ch. 16 and Dropl
ch. 13, cf. LiestølUpph 151-52; Herv 140 ch. 16 (FAS I 488); Vols ch. 32 (30),
45 (43) (= RagnarL 113-14 ch. 1); HålfdE VIII-IX (FAS III 531); OOdd 127
(ib. II 242); Olfh ch. 1; Vilm ch. 5; Stark 7 ch. 3.
K959.2.2. Heroes dislike to kill sleeping people. ForstVik 399^100 ch. 7; Forarms b-
Nefjulfssonar in Flb II 232 (FMS IV 264; Fjlsl 350); FloresS XIX 1 p. 152:
»nåttvig eru mordvig«, cf. p. 37; EgÅsm VIII 5; Fidr I 361.
K959.2.3. Man murdered at his wife’s side. Cf. K873.1.
K959.2.4. Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in
sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellor. Kongab 31 ff.
K959.2.5. Hero attacks and kills at night hero who wanted to go to sleep before their
fighting. OOdd 52-54 (FAS II 187-8).
K959.3. Tent pulled down over man, and he is then killed. Cf. Q411.2.1. OOdd 111-12,
cf. 174-76 (ch. XXXII, FAS II226, 284-86, 537); EgÅsm VIII 7-9 (FAS III 380).
K959.3.1. Rafter supporting giant’s house cut half through, so that it can be drawn
down from the outside, and the giant is killed. Yngv 20.
K959.4. Murder from behind. Skåldsk ch. 5 (57), cf. Q412; Uppl 457 ch. 2 (FAS II
105; SRD II 269) = Hkr I 81-83, Hist. Norwegiæ in Monumenta Hist. Nor-
vegiæ 103; Fær ch. 43, 103; OOdd 70-71 (ch. XXI2-3, FAS II 197, 528); SorlaSt
446 ch. 20; ÅnB 345, 348 ch. 5, 6; HrolfG 29 ch. 18 (FAS III 111-12); Vigl 69-72
ch. 13, 15; Fidr II 266.