Motifs

Certain images and patterns appear and reappear in myths from distinct civilizations that may have had no contact whatsoever:

person in a tree

person in a wooden box (often thrown into the sea)

the apple

the wolf

The disguised bride or bridegroom
In __The Giant's Bride__, Thor pretends to be Freya, come to marry Thrym. Thrym thinks he is getting the goddess of beauty and fertility, but instead he he tricked by the mighty Thunder God.

What big eyes you have!
__Echo and Narcissus__ "What big beautiful eyes you have" "Those curls! they're as smooth as Apollo's!" "Ah, such high cheekbones, And those charming lips!"

This appears in a fairytale called __"Little Red Riding Hood."__ //Why Grandmama, what big eyes you have! ...Why Grandmama, what big teeth you have!// It appears when Little Red goes to her grandma's house, and the wolf ate her grandma and put her clothes on to trick Little Red. ^^^^MS

This also appears in __The Giant's Bride__, as Thrym says,//"Whoever saw a bride eat more? Or a maiden drink more?"//

I think that the Norse myth," The fairest feet" was kind of like a trickster myth because when Skadi wants to marry someone. Odin says she is only allowed to pick a husband by the looks of their feet because Odin does not want Skadi to marry Balder.-GG