Wild Hunt

motif in northern European folk myth
Thing narrative_motif Q841437
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Wild Hunt

Summary

Wild Hunt is a narrative motif[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of narrative_motif entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,677 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wild Hunt's instance of is recorded as narrative motif[3].
  • Wild Hunt's instance of is recorded as folklore motif[4].
  • Wild Hunt's depicts is recorded as death[5].
  • Wild Hunt's depicts is recorded as dead human[6].
  • Wild Hunt's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2005004359[7].
  • Wild Hunt's part of is recorded as European folklore[8].
  • Wild Hunt's Commons category is recorded as Wild Hunt[9].
  • Wild Hunt's catalog code is recorded as E501.[10].
  • Wild Hunt's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0k0lg[11].
  • Wild Hunt's facet of is recorded as phantom hosts[12].
  • Wild Hunt's described by source is recorded as Motif-Index of Folk-Literature[13].
  • Wild Hunt's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[14].
  • Wild Hunt's described by source is recorded as Bidrag til en Ordbog over Jyske Almuesmål[15].
  • Wild Hunt's BBC Things ID is recorded as 898c33ca-36de-4d21-936a-40834ed6094e[16].
  • Wild Hunt's different from is recorded as Wilde Jagd[17].
  • Wild Hunt's different from is recorded as Cosmic Hunt[18].
  • Wild Hunt's indigenous to is recorded as Irish people[19].
  • Wild Hunt's indigenous to is recorded as Lithuanians[20].
  • Wild Hunt's indigenous to is recorded as Norwegians[21].
  • Wild Hunt's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03627163n[22].
  • Wild Hunt's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as wild-hunt[23].
  • Wild Hunt's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as åsgårdsrei[24].
  • Wild Hunt's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Narration[25].
  • Wild Hunt's Comic Vine ID is recorded as 4060-54294[26].
  • Wild Hunt's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.mythological-creations:Дикая_охота[27].

Why It Matters

Wild Hunt ranks in the top 10% of narrative_motif entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,677 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wild-hunt_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Wild Hunt}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wild-hunt}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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