Motif
animal image of the future spouse
animal_image_of_the_future_spouse
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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The Nibelungenlied I. THE NIBELUNGEN SAGA / II. THE NIBELUNGENLIED / THE NIBELUNGENLIED / FIRST ADVENTURE; lines 1244-1383 confidence: high
Kriemhild dreams that she reared "a falcon, / in beauty strong and wild," and that it "by two eagles perished."
The falcon in Kriemhild's dream is explicitly interpreted as a noble spouse and later identified with the knight she marries.
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