Motif
Animal messenger reports a lost companion's otherworldly dwelling
animal_messenger_reports_a_lost_companion_s_otherworldly_dwelling
A motif of the Otherworld and Enchanted Realm family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country CANTO XV / THE MARRIAGE OF THE SISTERS / CANTO XVI / THE VOYAGE OF THE KALEVIDE; lines 3524-3611 confidence: high
The son of Sulev reaches a volcano through ashes, snowfields, and red-hot stones and returns scorched; the Kalevide asks about the cupbearer; a white bird tells the wise Finn that the boy is behind the snow-mountains with water-nymphs and will not return.
A white bird communicates, through the wise Finn's animal-language knowledge, that the missing cupbearer is in a beautiful country behind snow-mountains with water-nymphs and will not return.
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