Motif
annihilation of a people reshaped into saga
annihilation_of_a_people_reshaped_into_saga
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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germanic
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The Nibelungenlied II. THE NIBELUNGENLIED. / THE NIBELUNGENLIED. / THE NIBELUNGENLIED / I. THE NIBELUNGEN SAGA; lines 583-649 confidence: high
The Burgundians settle near Worms on the Rhine, suffer a reverse in 435, and are practically annihilated by the Huns in 437, with twenty thousand killed and the rest scattered.
The Burgundian destruction by the Huns is described as producing a profound impression and being mingled with fiction.
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