Motif Index of German Secular Narratives                 
Published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
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Segremors

Segr-1
Segr-2
Segr-3
 

Matière de Bretagne

Segremors
Beyer, P.G.(ed.): Die mitteldeutschen Segremors-Fragmente. Diss. Marburg 1909. p. 4-23.

Segr-1:   (=Segremors A) Gawan in difficulties. Young Segremors’s help refused by Malgrim. (55) Segremors leaves court. (65) Segremors leaves his lady Nyobe to undertake quest in her service.
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Segr-2:   (=Segremors B) Segremors on quest for lost Gawan. (30) Segremors enters country of Sirikirsan, land and castle Bonkovereye. (40) Custom: marriages made at annual may festival. (66) Segremors welcomed by dwarf Malgrim who guides him to his old lord. (145) Otherworld island of everlasting spring nearby. (150) Produced by fairy queen Karmente. (174) Wonderful marble tower with shining roof on the is-land. (193) Fairy queen offers herself as prize to hero who overcomes her champion (228) Grymoalt has been killed by a challenger.
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T 68 Princess offered as prize
F 134 Otherworld on island
T 147 Marriages made at annual festival.
F 161.1 Perpetual summer in otherworld.
F 176 Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes [is overcome by] king (queen) or fairy.
F 252.2 Fairy queen
F 302 Fairy mistress
H 331.2 Suitor contest: tournament
F 451.5.1.7 Dwarfs serve mortals
F 451.8.2 Proper names for dwarfs
P 634 Feasts
F 730 Extraordinary island
F 772 Extraordinary tower.
H 1385 Quest for lost person.

Segr-3:   (=Segremors C) Combat of Segremors and Gawan.
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