Motif
courtship through difficult or impossible tasks
courtship_through_difficult_or_impossible_tasks
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family, within the sub-family Marriage Trials and Wedding Rites. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4268-4457 confidence: high
Wainamoinen rejects the bird's counsel, offers to make the maiden wife and queen, and completes her test of splitting a golden hair with edgeless knives and snaring a bird's egg with an unseen snare.
The maiden repeatedly conditions entering Wainamoinen's sledge on extraordinary feats, including splitting a golden hair with edgeless knives, using an unseen snare, cutting ice without splinters, and making a vessel from spindle and distaff fragments.
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