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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
P18.1. Af ter highly mourned wife’s death the king manies another who turns out to
be an evil witch. Cf. G205. HjOlv 455, 515 ch. 2-3; IUGr 656 ch. 5; Kongab 30 ff.
P19. O ther motifs connected with kings. Sogubr 25 ch. 10 (FAS I 388): king rides
through kingdom to judge; cf. E. Wadstein in Sv. hist. Tidskrift 1927, 59-60;
J. Sahlgren in Saga och Sed 1942, 43-50.
P20. Queens. Cf. K1812.8; K2213.
P20.1. Clever queen. HrolfG 32 ch. 21 (FAS III 117); Ålafl I 2.
P22. Queen marries murderer of her fiancé (husband). Cf. P17.ll.
P22.1. Queen leaves country with her son, having killed her husband in revenge for
his killing of her father and brother. Cf. P231.8. Uppl ch. 2 in Hb 457 (= FAS II
105, SRD II 269) = HålfdS in Hkr I 86.
P23. Queen persuades king to make war without cause, that her sons may have territory.
P23.1. Queen persuades husband to riot against his superior. HrolfKr 94-95 ch. 31
(FAS I 96-97).
P23.2. Queen persuades husband to claim her father’s kingdom after his death. HålfdE
XI 2-5 (FAS III 533).
P23.3. Queen persuades husband to avenge her father. Amb 180 ch. 39 (38).
P23.4. Queen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first hus-
band. f>i5r II 308-09: Grimhildr.
P25. Queen meddies in State affairs. Cf. HålfdE VIII 5-8, XX 13 (FAS III 530);
HrolfG 31, 48-49 ch. 20, 29 (ib. 115-16, 143^19); FriGfj XI 13-17 (ib. II 93-94,
500); ÅsmS 14; E>i6r II 219-26; NikL 59-61 ch. 16; Saxo lib. VII c. I 2: queen
as quarreller. Cf. K2130.
P26. Captured queen commits suicide.
P26.1. Queen commits suicide, as her husband vanquishes and kills her father and her
brother. (Cf. P211). Herv 44, 122 (FAS I 454).
P27. Grief at queen’s death. Cf. T211. SturlSt 596 ch. 5; t>i3r II 71; Andr 85.
P27.1. King sits mourning on his wife’s grave mound. Cf. P14.10. Gautr 35, 39, 40,
63 ch. 8-9 (FAS III 39, 43^44); HrolfG 57 ch. 1; GHrolf 251, 266 ch. 5, 01;
HjOlv 456 ch. 2; Kongab 30. Cf. Hollander in ANF XXIX 126-28.
P27.2. King mourns so mueh at wife’s death that he goes on piracy (every summer
afterward). RagnarL ch. 4 (3) (FAS I 242-43); HålfdE I 5 (ib. III 520), cf. p. 92 n.
P27.3. King calls daughter in second marriage by the name of his first queen. KetilH
124 ch. 4; FloresS X 5-6.
P30. Princes. Cf. K2246.
P30.1. Kings’ sons called kings, according to an old nor se custom. HringT 7 ch. 1.
P40. Princesses. Cf. T50.1.
P50. Noblemen (knights). Cf. P10. Rb 26 ff.: origin and characteristics, cf. A1650;
Sverr ch. 85 in FMS VIII 207 (Måna b- in Fjfsl 189).
P50.1. Earl. Cf. F1041.16.ll; K1626.1; K1952.4; K2247; P273.2.2; Q113.1; Rlll.
2.3.1; R169.4.1; T68.2. HaraldHårf ch. 6 in FMS X 186.
P50.1.1. Earl’s name preferred to king’s. Hversu Noregr byggbist ch. 1 in Flb I 22,
23 (FAS II7). Cf. Hrollaugr in HaraldHårf ch. 8 in Hkr 1106, ch. 6 in FMS X 186.