Motif
animal double of a suspected ruler
animal_double_of_a_suspected_ruler
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation 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 the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda CHAPTER XXXII. Of the Ending of Brynhild. / CHAPTER XXXIII. Gudrun wedded to Atli. / CHAPTER XXXIV. Atli bids the Giukings to him. / CHAPTER XXXV. The Dreams of the Wives of the Giukings.; lines 4626-4682 confidence: medium
Kostbera dreams an erne enters, sweeps down the hall, drenches everyone with blood, and is Atli's double; Hogni links the dream to slaughtered beasts and oxen and says Atli is heart-whole toward them.
Kostbera says the blood-drenching erne in her dream was the double of King Atli, while Hogni denies hostility from Atli.
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