Motif
ancestral naming with water sprinkling
ancestral_naming_with_water_sprinkling
A motif of the Sacred Waters and Passage Through Water family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga CHAPTER XIII. / GLUM'S WOOING. / CHAPTER XIV. / GLUM'S WEDDING.; lines 2746-2793 confidence: high
Hallgerda gives birth to a girl; Glum asks her name, and Hallgerda says she will be called Thorgerda after her father's mother; the passage links that line to descent from Sigurd Fafnir's-bane.
Hallgerda names her daughter after her father's mother, the passage notes ancestral descent, and the child is sprinkled with water when named.
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