[401] Na karablié niet ni adnavó pána, a vsió córnie ludi.
[402] Cfr. Afanassieff, v. 23.—Ice, in the form of an old man, comes to try the boiling bath into which the king of the sea wishes to throw the young hero; when Ice has tried the bath, the youth enters it without suffering any harm.—The trial of drinking occurs again in a grandiose form in the combat between Loki and Thor to empty the cup in the Edda of Snorri, a different form of the Hindoo legend of Agastyas, who dries up the sea.—Odin, too, as Indras and as Bhîmas, at three gulps dries up three lakes of mead.
[403] Afanassieff, v. 42.
[404] Cfr. the chapters on the Hare and the Quail.
[405] Afanassieff, vi. 28, and ii. 31.
[406] Afanassieff, vi. 20.—Cfr. i. 3, and ii. 31, where we have the same particular of the prince who strikes three times the disguised girl who serves him, as in the Tuscan story of the Wooden Top (the puppet), the third in my collection of the Novelline di Santo Stefano di Calcinaia.
[407] iv. 44.
[408] Cfr. next chapter.
[409] Cfr. the chapter on the Spider.
[410] Afanassieff, ii. 29, and iv. 45.