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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
P300-399. OTHER SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
P310. Friendship. Cf. F1041.21.4; H1558; K1371.1.2; M168.1; N455.8; R169.5.
Heinzel 36.
P310.1. Friends want to divide good and evil. Cf. H1558.
P310.2. Friends avenge each other. Cf. M161.2; P251.3.1; P312.2. OOdd 70-71 (ch.
XXI 3-5; FAS II 197, 528); GHrolf 307-08 ch. 25; bi6r II 321-22.
P310.3. Dying hero sends greetings to friends. (y.) OOdd 104-05 (FAS II 219-21).
P310.4. Friends want their children to be friends too. Laxd ch. 7; FriåJjj 18-9; borstVik
408 ch. 10; HrolfG ch. 3 (FAS III 63-65); biår II 358.
P310.4.2. Friends’ children become enemies. Friåbj and horstVik 1. c.
P310.5. Defeated enemy turns true friend. Cf. P311.1. Ålafl XIV-XVI; HringH
11-13 ch. 5; SigJ> ch. 39; Amb 182-86 ch. 39-40 (38-39 in Reykj. ed.). Cf. VilhSj
72-73 ch. 29: friends after unsettled combat.
P310.6. One friend dies shortly after the other. Cf. H1558.3; P234.2; T86.2. Bisk II
163; Gering 116; Saxo lib. XI c. IX 1-4: on the same time. Cf. Saxo lib. I c. VIII
27: king kills self hearing of friend’s death, Herrm 96.
P311. Sworn brethren. Eg XXV 25; Floam ch. 2; Gullb ch. 2; Vols ch. 28 (26);
HålfdE XXI 2 (FAS III 551); (y.) OOdd 125-28 (ib. II 240-44); borstVik 395
ch. 5; SturlSt 594, 606 ch. 1, 9; IllGr 660 ch. 6; Ålafl XVI 5-21; Liér I 143-44,
II 39-41; VilhSj 94 ch. 40; Sigb 164 ch. 23; ViktorBl ch. 3; SaulusN ch. 11,
Kongab 35; borgr 10, 24, 34 ch. 2, 4, 5; Hell 8 ch. 5; HéåinH 19 ch. 10.
P311.1. Combatants become sworn brethren. Cf. P310.5. Vatnsd VII 20-22; Sorla
277-79 (FAS I 397, 399 ch. 4, 6); HrolfG 20 ch. 10 (ib. III 93-94); OOdd 62-65
(ch. XVIII 7, FAS II 193-94, 525); HjOlv 455 ch. 2; HålfdE XXI 2; borstVik
400-02,440,444-45 ch. 7,20,21; SorlaSt 450 ch. 25-26; SturlSt 615 ch. 13; EgÅsm
IV 12, VI 9-10, cf. introd. xxiv-xxix (FAS III 370, 375-76); biår I 43, 173, 192
(ff.), II 35; Sigb ch. 28, 39; SigFot 1003-04; Ulf 141, 180 ff.; Villif 34 ch. 16;
Vilm 170 ch. 13; HéåinH 6-7 ch. 3; borgr 17 ch. 3; Vald 72 ch. 2; Kirial 6,
82, 99-100; cf. also RémK 5-9, 70-72 ch. 1-3, 16; Mågus ch. 46; Andr 38, 43;
Saxo lib. I c. VI 7, lib. VI c. II10 = Herrm 99 ff.
P312. Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their
biood. Cf. M201.1.1; S123.2.1. Ls 9; Brot af Siguråarkviåa 17 in BuggeE 240;
GislaS VI 10-11; borstVik 445 ch. 21; EgÅsm VI 9 (cf. P311.1); IllGr 649 ch. 1;
Saxo lib. I c. VI 7. Cf. Herrm 100-01; MC 140; GrønbechVFO IV 128; Vries
36; Reuschel 73.
P312.2. Sworn brethren and blood-brethren avenge each other. Cf. P251.3.1; P310.2.
OrmSt 525 (FMS III 213; Fjlsl 208); EgÅsm, IllGr, and borstVik 1. c.; borgr 17
ch. 3. Cf. Saxo lib. I c. VIII 27 (Herrm 100), lib. IV c. I 11; Jomsv ch. 14 (16).
P312.3. Surviving blood-brother to watch three nights in grave-mound. EgÅsm VI 10,
cf. Lagerholm xxiv-xxix.
P313. Milk-brotherhood. Saxo lib. I c. IV 1, lib. II c. VI 8-11.
P315. Friends offer to die for each other. Each falsely confesses crime so as to save
the other. Neither guilty. Cf. P310.6. Gering I 166-67, 287-91.
P320. Hospitality. Cf. P411.4. ÅsmK 90-91 ch. 6 (FAS II 475); EgÅsm V 14 ff. (ib.
III 373 ff.); Vigl 74-75 ch. 16; FloresS IV 1-5.
P320.1. Hospitality for a whole winter (by king or nobleman usual in old Scandinavia).
Cf. H1219.7; P337. OrmSt, Toka b- Tokasonar and Sneglu-Halla in Flb I 531,
II 135-37, III 416-17 (FMS III219, V 299-302, VI 361, Fjlsl 219-20, 281); Finnb