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The motif Wedding is a part of: Ritual
Keywords:
Ritual, love, marriage
Description of this motif: Weddings are based on the church's wedding ritual, which unites two people in the sacred bonds of marriage. In Andersen's tales weddings usually are described as in a traditional folk tale: the hero gets the princess in the end, and they live happpily ever after.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 1 The Tinder Box (1835)
- 1 Thumbelina (1835)
- 2 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 1 The Little Mermaid (1837)
- 2 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 The Flying Trunk (1839)
- 1 Third Evening (1839)
- 1 Eleventh Evening (1839)
- 1 Twenty-first Evening (1840)
- 1 Ole Lukoie (1841)
- 1 The Bond of Friendship (1842)
- 1 The Shadow (1847)
- 1 The Happy Family (1847)
- 1 Under The Willow Tree (1852)
- 1 She Was Good for Nothing (1852)
- 1 Clumsy Hans (1855)
- 1 Ib and Little Christine (1855)
- 1 A String of Pearls (1856)
- 1 Soup on a Sausage Peg (1858)
- 2 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 2 "Beautiful" (1859)
- 1 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 1 The Beetle (1861)
- 3 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 1 The Old Church Bell (1861)
- 1 Sunshine Stories (1869)
- 1 The Most Incredible Thing (1870)
- 2 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 1 "Spørg Amagermo'er"! (Danish title) (1871)
- 2 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Gate Key (1872)
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