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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
S100-199. REVOLTING MURDERS OR MUTILATIONS
SI 10. Murders. Cf. K955; K959.
5110.1. Old people killed in famine. Cf. Svada \>. in Flb I 435-39 (FMS II 225-28):
prevented in the last minute. Cf. Gotlind in Festskrift till H. Celander 1926;
Vries 86; F1041.1.11.1.
SI 11. Murder by poisoning. Cf. Q418. Frå dauda Sinfjotla in BuggeE 202 = Vols
ch. 10 and Nornag 58 ch. 4 (Flb I 350, FAS I 323); IllGr 657 ch. 5; EgÅsm XIII
1 (FAS III 392); HaraldHårf ch. 33 and 41 in Hkr I 149, 160: banadrykkr.
SI 11.8. Murder by feeding poisonous snake. Cf. HålfdE XX 4 (FAS III 549): murder
by worm running down intestines and tearing out heart; OlåfTr ch. 80 in Hkr I
400, ch. 211 in FMS II 179 (Flb I 395), by Odd ch. 56 (43).
SI 12. Burning to death. Cf. K955; Q414. OlåfTr ch. 206 in FMS II 170.
SI 12.2. Murder with hot iron. Bored through eye or nose. Cf. K1011. E>orstB 193
ch. 10 = Herrm 592.
SI 12.2.1. Murder by hot iron through heart. Saxo lib. VIII c. XIV 15 = Herrm 592.
S113. Murder by strangling.
SI 13.1. Murder by hanging. Cf. J162; Q413. LorstVik 438 ch. 19; Bisk II 114;
OlåfH ch. 73 in FMS IV 145; Ys ch. 19; Mdr II 95; Ulf 163.
SI 13.1.1. Slaves killed by hanging. Cf. P175.1.
SI 13.1.2. Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. Skj I 139, 361, 461;
MagnusB ch. 6, and IngaK ch. 12 in Hkr III 241, 367; MagnusB ch. 7, HaraldG
ch. 9, IngaK ch. 13, and MagnusErl ch. 10 in FMS VII 14, 186, 227 and 301;
Suppl. to OlåfH in FMS V 190; Ys ch. 23,24; HålfH VIII 7 (FAS II 34); Yngv
10; Lidr I 27, II 80, 172; SigrgFr 72 ch. 9; Amb 20, 38-40, 162 ch. 5, 8, 33;
HringH 45 ch. 19; Ulf 190, 222, 226; Saxo lib. VIII c. X 9.
SI 13.2. Murder by sujfocation.
SI 13.2.2. Suffocating in bathroom. Cf. PI6.3.1.1. Eyrb XXVIII 22-27.
SI 14. Murder by flaying. Cf. Q457; S166.6. IngaK ch. 13 in FMS VII 227, ch. 12
in Hkr III 366; SaulusN ch. 18; Ulf 163.
SI 16. Murder by crushing. Cf. F624.8; Q412. RagnarL ch. 12 (11) (FAS I 272).
S116.3. Murder by breaking back, bones. Cf. G512.7. Thor in Skåldsk ch. 27 (18) =
Saxo lib. VIII c. XIV 15 = Herrm 592, Skj I 142; Finnb ch. 13; OrmSt 530;
FloresS XVIII 5-6, ed. Lagerholm 152.
SI 16.4. Murder by crushing head. Kjaln ch. 4; OlåfH ch. 227 in Hkr II 490; Finnb
ch. 29; FloresS XVIII 4; Vigk 14 ch. 4.
SI 18. Murder by cutting.
5118.1. Murder by cutting adversary in two. Eyrb XLV 15; Njåla CXLVI 22; J6msv
ch. 12; Hard ch. 21, 36; OlåfH ch. 118 in Hkr II 252, ch. 211 in FMS V 80;
MagnusBl ch. 11 in Hkr III 334, ch. 12 in FMS VII 191; Svarfd ch. 23; Yngv
36; £>idr II 338-41; GunnarK 244, 245; RémK 100 ch. 20; Fertram ch. 4; Ulf
153, 155, 157-58, 177, 190, 243; Vigk 16 ch. 4; KåraK 19, 24, 34 ch. 8, 10, 15;
Stark 30 ch. 9; Andr 36, 39, 58, 61, 77; Saxo lib. II c. VI 10, lib. IV c. IV 9-10.
5121. Murder by slamming down chest-lid. Done while victim is looking into the
chest. Vkv 23-24, cf. Lidr I 117.
5122. Flogging to death. Cf. Q458. IngaK ch. 13 in FMS VII 227; ch. 12 in Hkr IH
366.