Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated UNDER CONSTRUCTION | Annotated Tale




73. Mjadveig [No Title]

Maurer, Konrad, Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart, vorwiegend nach mundlicher Ueberlieferung gesammelt und verdeutscht von Dr. Konrad Maurer. Leipzig, 1860. Pp. 281-82. (Narrated by Frau Brynjulfsson in Kopenhagen.)

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ABSTRACT

Ill-treated heroine (by step-mother)--Lost shoe--Shoe marriage test--. Mutilated feet--Animal witness (birds) -- Happy marriage.

(NOTE.--.Story resembles Arnason's "Story of Mjadveig", but is incomplete.)

TABULATION

(1) Widowed king Mani has beautiful daughter named Mjadveig. He marries woman with two hideous daughters. Stepmother is jealous of heroine, hides her from suitors, and displays own daughters.-- (2) A king's son finds tiny shoe, and vows he will only wed the woman who can wear it. Stepmother makes one daughter cut off heel, so as to wear shoe; prince is obliged to take her.-- (3) On the voyage, birds fly over ship, singing, "Hewn-heel sits at the prow; her shoe is full of blood. Mjadveig, Mani's daughter, sits at home, a doubly-deserving bride." [Narrator could not remember more of the story, except that the prince in the end obtained Mjadveig.]

Bibliographic Information

Tale Title: 73. Mjadveig [No Title]
Tale Author/Editor: Maurer, Konrad
Book Title: Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Book Author/Editor: Cox, Marian Roalfe
Publisher: David Nutt for the Folklore Society
Publication City: London
Year of Publication: 1893
Country of Origin: Iceland
Classification: ATU 510A: Cinderella








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