Motif
Animal ruse drawing armed men out
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser 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 LXXVII. / GUNNAR SINGS A SONG DEAD. / CHAPTER LXXVIII. / GUNNAR OF LITHEND AVENGED.; lines 8129-8200 confidence: high
They travel to the Point by night; two ravens fly with them; they drive a flock to the house, and Hroald and Tjorfi run out armed.
Hogni and Skarphedinn drive a flock toward a house, and later Skarphedinn plucks roof grass so people inside think cattle are on the roof; in both episodes armed men come out and are killed.
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