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From the fall of Rome (c. 476 CE) to the invention of printing. The precise dates vary from region to region, but this was a time when literacy was low and books rare. Most western folklore originated here, often echoing earlier tropes. [[Chivalric Romance]] developed in this era.
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Note: this is older than ''Johannes Gutenberg's printing press'' (1439 CE), not metal movable-type characters (ca. 1230 CE, Korea), movable-type printing (1040 CE, China), and certainly not wood-block printing (220 CE or earlier, China again). In short, the Middle Ages—assuming you don't take Petrarch's definition for it, as he lived in the 1300s.
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Specific works from this time period include:
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* ''The [[Arabian Nights]]'', mostly (though Aladdin and Ali Baba have no known source before Galland's [[Older Than Radio]] French translation.)
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* ''[[Beowulf]]''
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* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]
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* Giovanni Boccacio's ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]''
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* ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' by Dante Alighieri
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* Almost everything we know of [[Celtic Mythology]] and [[Norse Mythology]] was first written down during this period.
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* [[The Icelandic Sagas]]
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* Most sources of [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]], from Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae|History of the Kings of Britain]]'' to ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]''.
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* ''[[Nibelungenlied]]''
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* The ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of Genji]]''
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* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (though set in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE)
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* ''[[The Song of Roland]]''
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* ''[[The Shahnameh]]'' by Ferdowsi
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* The [[Hinduism|Hindu]] [[Hindu Mythology|Puranas]] were composed in more-or-less their present form during the centuries before about 1000 CE, although their origins and some portions of the texts go back to at least 300 BCE.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Seen in the Wife of Bath's Tale in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.
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* [[Above the Influence]]: Kamar and Budur in ''The [[Arabian Nights]]''.
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* [[Adjective Animal Alehouse]]: European [[The High Middle Ages|High Middle Ages]] practice.
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* [[The Ageless]]: The [[Norse Mythology|Norse gods]] are unaging, so long as they continue to eat the Apples of Idun.
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* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: St. Catherine of Siena did this, supposedly.
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* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: 'A woman with black cat is a witch' dates to this time period.
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* [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex]]: Works by Duke William IX of Aquitaine.
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* [[Arrow Catch]]: Odin in [[Norse Mythology]] and Jiang Wei in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' can both do this.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: The [[Celtic Mythology|Irish god]] Nuada got a silver arm after losing his real one.
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* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Back in 12th century Europe, a lot of knights [[Jumped At the Call]] of the Second Crusade. Why? They were raised on stories of the First Crusade.
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: "Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura" in ''The [[Arabian Nights]]''.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Liu Bei in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
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* [[Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts]]: Mi Zhu picks up a hitchhiking {{spoiler|fire spirit}} in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
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* [[Bishonen]]: [[The Tale of Genji|Prince Genji]].
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* [[Black Knight]]: The two black knights from [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]].
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* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: The game of [[Chess]] ends when the king is surrounded with no chance of escape.
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* [[The Call Left a Message]]: The Sword in the Stone and the Siege Perilous from the [[King Arthur]] legends.
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* [[Catch and Return]]: Catching a spear from mid-flight and throwing it back is a feat mastered by various heroes of [[The Icelandic Sagas]].
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* [[Chain of Deals]]: The Japanese legend of the straw millionaire, a poor man who prayed to the goddess of mercy. She granted him a piece of straw, which he traded through his travels until he managed to win the heart of an heiress.
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* [[Changeling Tale]]: Supernatural beings enticing humans away into the Otherworld is a trope of [[Irish Mythology]], though this is not done from malice. The folk belief (common to most of Western Europe) that malicious supernatural beings outright kidnap people (especially babies) and substitute them with changelings is documented from the [[The Late Middle Ages]] onwards.
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* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]: ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', 14th century.
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* [[Chess Motifs]]: Chaturanga existed by the 7th century CE.
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* [[Chivalric Romance]]: Hallmark of [[The High Middle Ages|High Middle Ages]] literature.
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* [[Cold Iron]]: The traditional bane of [[The Fair Folk]].
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* [[Corrupt Church]]: Medieval Western Europe allegedly got it bad enough to be commented on in several contemporary sources. The most notable of these is Dante, who puts several popes in Hell for corruption in the ''[[The Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'', and the one pope we meet in the ''Purgatorio'' is also there for being too greedy before he repented.
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* [[The Corpse Stops Here]]: "The Story of the Hunchback" from the ''[[Arabian Nights]]''.
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* [[Courtroom Episode]]: Elaborate law court scenes are found in many of the [[The Icelandic Sagas|Sagas of Icelanders]].
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* [[Courtly Love]]: A staple of [[Chivalric Romance]].
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* [[Damsel Errant]]: In [[King Arthur|Arthurian myths]], such as in the Forest of Arroy.
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* [[The Dead Can Dance]]: The ''danse macabre'' motif in art (first in 1425), and various morality plays.
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* [[Direct Line to the Author]]: ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of Genji]]'' and ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' both have this.
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* [[Disposable Woman]]: ''Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae'', before the 9th century. Also ''Shui Hu Zhuan,'' aka ''[[Water Margin|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' or ''The Water Margin'' (mid-14th century).
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* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Chivalric stories, such as the 12th-century tale of the Troubadour Joufre.
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* [[The Everyman]]: These were often the protagonists of medieval everyman plays.
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* [[Everything's Better with Rainbows]] (Rainbows as solid objects): In [[Norse Mythology]] the rainbow is Bifrost, the bridge between Asgard and Midgard, a solid road on which the gods travel.
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* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Kajebi fortress in [[wikipedia:The Knight in the Pantherchr(27)s Skin|''The Knight in the Tiger's Skin'']] (12th century).
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* [[Eye Beams]]: The Fomor Balor from [[Irish Mythology]] had a magic eye that could burn men "like leaves cast into a forge." In the ''Matsya Purana'', Shiva used his third eye to burn the love-god Kama to ash in wrath over being forced to fall in love with Parvati.
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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The god Odin in [[Norse Mythology]].
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* [[The Fair Folk]]: Ancient [[Irish Mythology]], bleeding through into British folk tales.
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* [[Fanfare]]: European practice heralding the arrival of a King.
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* [[Family Eye Resemblance]]: In ''[[The Saga of the Volsungs|Volsunga Saga]]'', all the Volsungs have unusually bright, piercing eyes.
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* [[Fantastic Foxes]]: Oral traditions in Europe and Asia.
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* [[Faux Death]]: The [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic]] precursor of "Sleeping Beauty".
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* [[Fence Painting]]: The modus operandi of the West African trickster Anansi the Spider. It eventually backfires on him.
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* [[Feuding Families]]: Many [[The Icelandic Sagas|Sagas of Icelanders]], such as ''Njáls saga'', ''Laxdæla saga'', and ''Eyrbyggja saga''.
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* [[Fleur-de-Lis]]: European heraldry.
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* [[For Want of a Nail]]: The proverb first appeared during this period, though the concept may be older. There's also the ''Arabian Nights'' tale "What a drop of honey caused" (it caused a war.)
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* [[Generational Saga]]: Various [[The Icelandic Sagas|Icelandic sagas]], such as ''Laxdæla saga'', ''Eyrbyggja saga'', or ''[[The Saga of the Volsungs|Volsunga Saga]]'' (all 13th century).
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* [[Genie in a Bottle]]: Arabian myth and legend.
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Saint Christopher, post [[Character Development]], in the ''Golden Legend'' c. 1260 CE.
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* [[Greedy Jew]]: Medieval European prejudice.
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* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The personification of Death as a skeletal figure with a scythe was common in the middle ages in Europe, starting in the 14th century.
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* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The mobility limitations of the Advisors/Guards in [[Xiangqi]] means they're often getting in each other's way.
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* [[Hammerspace]]: Thunder-god Thor of [[Norse Mythology]] could make his hammer shrink to an incredibly tiny size, and be pulled out of seemingly nowhere, and is both the first user and [[Trope Namer|namer of this trope]].
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* [[Heroic Albino]]: Prince Zal in ''The Shāhnāmeh'' by the great Persian poet Ferdowsi.
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* [[Holding the Floor]]: Scheherezade in ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' dragged this on a ''long'' time.
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* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]]: "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad" in ''[[Arabian Nights]]''.
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* [[IKEA Erotica]]: The gods Izanagi and Izanami, in the Japanese creation myth.
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* [[Insubstantial Ingredients]]: The sound of a cat's footfall is one of several impossible ingredients in the unbreakable ribbon [[wikipedia:Gleipnir|Gleipnir]] in [[Norse Mythology]].
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* [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?]]: ''Decameron'', 14th century CE. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141030101448/http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/decamer/eng/day_03/novella_03_10.html Day 3, Story 10]
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* [[King in the Mountain]]: [[King Arthur]] in Cadbury Hill, Frederick Barbarossa in Kyffhäuser, King Wenceslas in Blaník, to only name a few.
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* [[Knighting]]: Medieval European practice.
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* [[Knight Errant]]: [[Chivalric Romance]]
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* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: [[Chivalric Romance]]
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* [[The Lady's Favour]]: [[Chivalric Romance]]
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Dante's reaction to seeing so many Florentines he recognizes in Hell in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''. The narrator of ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' concludes her glamorous description of Genji's awesomeness with the note that if she mentioned ''all'' the ways he was amazing, it would only look absurd.
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* [[Land of Faerie]]: The Otherworld, inhabited by the Sidhe of [[Irish Mythology]].
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* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: ''The Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', 1300s
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* [[Literal Ass Kissing]]: "The Miller's Tale" in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', late 14th century
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* [[Mad Eye]]: Cuchulain, [[Celtic Mythology|Irish]] folk hero, sucks one eye all the way into his skull while the other pops right out when he gets into a rage.
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* [[Magic Knight]]: The [[Norse Mythology|Norse god]] Odin.
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* [[Merlin]]: The "modern" incarnation of him began in this time period, along with the modern [[King Arthur|Arthurian mythos]].
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* [[Merlin and Nimue]] (a relationship between two magic-users): The pair from [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]] are the [[Trope Namer]]s and makers.
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* [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: In [[Chivalric Romance]], the magical jewel that shone of its own light is a stock magical item.
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* [[The Mourning After]]: The [[Chivalric Romance]] ''Floris and Blanchefleur''.
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* [[Murder, Inc.]]: [[The Hashshashin]], the original assassins, come from this period.
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* [[Name and Name]]: ''Troilus and Criseyde'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer]].
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* [[Nerf]]: Generals in [[Xiangqi]].
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* [[Once Upon a Time]]: Per Webster's, started around 1380.
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* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Pieces in Chaturanga.
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* [[Our Genies Are Different]]: The varying portrayal of genies in the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' are often quite different from what the Western world expects of genies.
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* [[Pop Goes the Human]]: There's a Celtic yarn about a boy who is mad at his brother for being a glutton, and makes a [[Chain of Deals]] so he can hang him. When he finally gets the materials to build a gibbet, he returns home to discover that his brother burst.
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* [[Privately-Owned Society]]: [[Real Life]] Gaelic Ireland, between 650 and 1650, and the Icelandic Commonwealth, between 930 and 1262.
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* [[The Promise]]: In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''Sir Orfeo''.
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* [[Random Events Plot]]: ''Apollonius of Tyre'', a [[Chivalric Romance]].
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* [[Rage Against the Reflection]]: In ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' Xiahou Dun, after getting his [[Eyepatch of Power]], is said to have a "wanting to break things" expression on his face whenever he got near a mirror.
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* [[Reforged Blade]]: The [[Trope Maker]] is the Icelandic ''[[The Saga of the Volsungs|Saga of the Volsungs]]'': When no other blade meets his requirements, the hero Sigurd makes the dwarf Regin forge the pieces of his father's sword into a new weapon of superior quality.
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: Pre-Christian pagan religions thought Judaism was this. Later on medieval Christians accused pagans of Satan-worship. Nowadays atheists accuse Christians of this. Tomorrow....?
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* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: The [[Norse Mythology|Norse god]] Odin invented it.
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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Brunhild the Moor in ''Die Mörin'', Hermann von Sachsenheim, 1453
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* [[Self-Insert Fic]]: Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''
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* [[Shapeshifting Lover]]: Japanese kitsune and tanuki, [[Celtic Mythology|Irish]] selkies, European swan maidens, and others.
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* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: The [[Celtic Mythology|Welsh myth]] of Cerridwen and Taliesin. The Tale of the Kalandar Prince in The ''[[Arabian Nights]]''.
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* [[Short-Lived, Big Impact]]: ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' were never finished yet have influenced all of Western literature.
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* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: In the ''[[The Song of Roland|Chanson De Roland]]'', Charlemagne calls on the Pagan leader Baligant to repent and be baptized, and then the Emperor his "first friend will be." Baligant tells him, "Your sermon's but ill preached." Of course, the medieval belief that being non-Christian necessarily makes Baligant the villian of the piece hits modern [[Values Dissonance]].
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* [[Simple Staff]]: Little John, ''[[Robin Hood]]'', 14th century
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* [[Slasher Smile]]: Skarp-Héðinn Njálsson in [[The Icelandic Sagas|the Icelandic]] ''Brennu-Njáls Saga''. Loki in [[Norse Mythology]].
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* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: ''Beowulf'', in the order in which he fights the three monsters.
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* [[Strange Salute]]: In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', some demons salute each other by ''farting''.
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* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The tale of Sir Thopas in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.
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* [[Suicide Attack]]: [[The Hashshashin]], the original assassins.
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* [[Third Eye]]: The Hindu ''Matsya Purana'' tells of the fear of the gods when Shiva mourned unceasingly for his dead wife Sati, because a prophecy stated that a new son of Shiva was needed to save the gods from a coming catastrophe. Kama, god of love, shot Shiva to make him fall in love with Parvati, so Shiva grew a third eye and burnt him to a crisp with [[Eye Beams]].
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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: From [[Norse Mythology|Norse heroic legend]]: When the hero Sigurd is stabbed in his sleep, he throws his sword after the fleeing murderer that cuts him clean in two. The incident is related identically in ''Prose Edda'', ''Poetic Edda'' and ''[[The Saga of the Volsungs|Volsunga Saga]]''.
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* [[Thud and Blunder]]: ''Beowulf''
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* [[Turn Out Like His Father]]: Some variants of Percival, from [[King Arthur]] myths.
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* [[Uptown Girl]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Prince Justinian I]] married Theodora, a low-class actress/prostitute. He actually [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|abolished the laws prohibiting their marriage.]]
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: In ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', Zhou Yu is completely unhinged by the failure of his last plan against Zhuge Liang. Zhou Yu's rage causes a wound to reopen and he sickens and dies shortly thereafter.
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* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: In the framing story of the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'', as well as within more than one tale. The women in question are Persian, but the dynamic with black male slaves is the same.
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* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Hikaru Genji does this with/to Murasaki in ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of Genji]]''. Lugh tries to do this with Deirdre in ''[[Celtic Mythology|Deirdre of the Sorrows]]'', but it doesn't work.
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* [[The Wild Hunt]]: Unequivocal instances of this trope date to this era, the oldest probably found in the ''Bhagavata Purana'' of Hindu literature (9th or 10th century), where mention is made of a travelling army of ghosts, headed by Shiva. For Europe, this supernatural phenomenon is probably first described by the chronicler Ordericus Vitalis in the 1130s.<ref>The "Wild Hunt" myth is also often connected to the army of the ''Harii'' described by Tacitus in ''Germania'' (c. 100 AD). The ''Harii'' supposedly attack at night, with their bodies painted black, thus willfully spreading fear. However, Tacitus says they are a real, living tribe.</ref>
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* [[William Telling]]: The earliest instance is that of Palnatoki or Toko, recorded in the 12th century in Saxo Grammaticus' ''Danish History''. William Tell, in contrast, is first described performing the feat in the 15th century in the ''White Book of Sarnen''.
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* [[Wishplosion]]: In the original ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' a man's wife gets rid of an evil genie by wishing he would straighten out a single hair. (In today's age of salons, this wouldn't work.)
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* [[You All Meet in An Inn]]: The pilgrims in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', and Liu Bei and his (future) sworn brothers in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
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