Motif
Alliance accepted as path toward vengeance for a dead husband
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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germanic
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The Nibelungenlied SEVENTEENTH ADVENTURE / EIGHTEENTH ADVENTURE / NINETEENTH ADVENTURE / TWENTIETH ADVENTURE; lines 10087-10260 confidence: high
Kriemhild asks Ruediger to swear to be foremost in requiting her sorrows; Ruediger and his men swear faithful service, promise not to deny her, and give a hand-pledge.
After Ruediger's oath, Kriemhild thinks that faithful friends, Etzel's knights and riches, and her own command may allow her husband's death to be avenged.
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