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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
Kl 342.0.1. Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket (with flowers). FloresB
ch. XVII.
K1344. Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden’s chamber. Cf. K1523. NikL 28 ff. ch.
9-12.
Kl 349. Other means of entering into girl's {man's) room {bed).
K1349.1. Disguise to enter girl’s {man's) room. Cf. K1310-1329.
Kl 349.1.5. Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilied in healing, and
wooes her for his friend. JarlmH 6-9 ch. 5.
K1350. Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick.
K1352. Deaths feigned to woo maiden. Cf. Svarfd 62-63 ch. 20; Heinzel 38.
K1355. Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. Saxo lib. IV c. 114 = Herrm
287.
K1371. Bride-stealing. Cf. K1321; R31. HaraldH ch. 15 in Hkr III 97 and FMS VI
168; GrimL 143 ch. 1; EgÅsm XV 1-9 (FAS III 396-402); JarlmH 26-27 ch.
14; SigF6t 999-1006; SaulusN ch. 20-22.
K1371.1. Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. Cf. RI 11.1.9; T150.
HålfdBr 589-90ch. 17; Bosa43-48, 53-54,124-31 ch. 12-13,16 (FASIII221-27);
HringT 13-16 ch. 6; NikL 49-56 ch. 14-15; Saxo lib. I c. IV 15 = Herrm 84.
K1371.1.2. Lover’s foster-brother {friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome
suitor. ÅsmS 7, 11-14; JarlmH 28-42 ch. 15-23.
K1371.4. Lover in disguise abducts beloved. SigFot 1002 (cf. R31); Bevers 230-32 ch.
15; SaulusN ch. 20-22.
K1371.4.1. Lover masks as king, knight. Cf. K1812.3. Saxo lib. III c. IV 1, 4.
K1372. Woman engaged to marry by trick. Ys ch. 37; GunnlO ch. 4(V 15-16); Gautr
46-49, 66-71 ch. 11, 5 (FAS III 50-53); Vigl 67-68 ch. 13; NikL 11 ff. ch. 6-7;
Saxo lib. Vc. III 15, cf. T55.8.
Kl 372.1. Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. NikL
11-16 ch. 6.
K1500-1599. DECEPTIONS CONNECTED WITH ADULTERY
K1510. Adulteress outwits husband. Grett LXXXVII ff.
K1513. The wife’s equivocal oath. Grett LXXXIX, cf. FFC 83 xxi; Schlauch 86-87;
Dehmer 115-16; Heinzel 44, 193.
Kl 514. Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover. HålfH VIII 4 (FAS
II 34).
Kl 521. Paramour successfully hidden from husband.
K1521.2. Paramour successfully hidden in chest. Cf. Grett LXXXVIII 8.
Kl 523. Underground passage to paramour’s house. (Inclusa). Cf. Kl 344; R25.1. Cf.
I>jJ6n 22 (14) ch. 8 ff.; Saxo lib. V c. III 27.
KI550. Husband outwits adulteress and paramour.
Kl 551. Husband ret ur ns home seer et ly and spies on adulteress and lovers.
K1551.1. Husband returns secretly and kills {unwelcome) suitor. Cf. N681. I>i6r II
150-54; Herv 44-47, 122-24 (FAS I 455-58): thrall.
K1557. Husband discovers wife’s adultery by riddling conversation.
K1557.1. Husband discovers paramour’s love letter in his wife’s purse, after having
made her drunk. t>i6r II 150-54.